Vertical variation of mixing within porous sediment beds below turbulent flows

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River ecosystems are influenced by contaminants in the water column, in the pore water and adsorbed to sediment particles. When exchange across the sediment-water interface (hyporheic exchange) is included in modeling, the mixing coefficient is often assumed to be constant with depth below the interface. Novel fiber-optic fluorometers have been developed and combined with a modified EROSIMESS system to quantify the vertical variation in mixing coefficient with depth below the sediment-water interface. The study considered a range of particle diameters and bed shear velocities, with the permeability Péclet number, Pek between 1000 and 77,000 and the shear Reynolds number, Re002A between 5 and 600. Different parameterization of both an interface exchange coefficient and a spatially variable in-sediment mixing coefficient are explored. The variation of in-sediment mixing is described by an exponential function applicable over the full range of parameter combinations tested. The empirical relationship enables estimates of the depth to which concentrations of pollutants will penetrate into the bed sediment, allowing the region where exchange will occur faster than molecular diffusion to be determined.

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Chandler, I. D., Guymer, I., Pearson, J. M., & van Egmond, R. (2016). Vertical variation of mixing within porous sediment beds below turbulent flows. Water Resources Research, 52(5), 3493–3509. https://doi.org/10.1002/2015WR018274

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