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Instabilities of a sand layer subjected to an upward water flow by a 2D coupled discrete element - Lattice Boltzmann hydromechanical model

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Mansouri, Mouloud
El Youssoufi, Moulay S.
Nicot, François
Document typeConference report
Defense date2017
PublisherCIMNE
Rights accessOpen Access
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This work deals with the numerical simulation of the instabilities occurring in a sand layer subjected to an upward water flow. A coupled Discrete Elements - Lattice Boltzmann hydromechanical model is used for this end. After a brief presentation of the numerical model, simulations of an upward fluid flow through granular deposits are performed for two cases namely under controlled hydraulic gradients and under controlled volumetric flow rates. In the first case i.e. under controlled hydraulic gradient, the simulations show that the quicksand condition is actually reached for a hydraulic gradient very close to the critical hydraulic gradient calculated from the global analysis of classical soil mechanics. The simulations point out moreover that the quicksand phenomenon could be produced locally under slightly lower gradients. In the second case i.e. under controlled volumetric flow rates, the simulations show that there are three levels of flow ; low flow rates that allow infiltration without any destabilization, medium flow rates that cause expansion of the deposit to increase its permeability and high flow rates which may cause the formation continuous tunnel between the upstream and the downstream sides as well as sand boils. It is shown also that under the controlled flow rate condition the hydraulic gradient remains in all cases less than the average critical hydraulic gradient.
URIhttp://hdl.handle.net/2117/187028
ISBN978-84-946909-7-6
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