Dataset of turbulent flow over interacting barchan dunes

Author(s)

Alvarez, Jimmy G. ; Borges, Danilo S. ; Franklin, Erick M.

• Document type: Journal article
• Source: DATA IN BRIEF; v. 52, p. 7-pg., 2023-12-22.

Abstract

Barchans are dunes commonly found in dune fields on Earth, Mars and other celestial bodies, where they can interact with each other. This article concerns experimental data for the flow over subaqueous barchans that are either isolated or interacting with each other. The experiments were carried out in a transparent channel of rectangular cross section in which turbulent water flows were imposed over either one single or a pair of barchans. The instantaneous flow fields were measured by using a low-frequency PIV (particle image velocimetry) and high-frequency PTV (particle tracking velocimetry). From the PIV and PTV data, the mean flow, trajectories, and second-order moments were computed, which are included in the datasets described in this paper, together with raw data (images), instantaneous fields, and scripts to process them. The datasets can be reused for benchmarking or for processing new images generated by other research groups. (c) 2023 The Author(s). Published by Elsevier Inc. This is an open access article under the CC BY license ( http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ ) (AU)

• FAPESP's process: 18/14981-7 - Modeling of dense granular flows: experiments, numerical simulations and stability analyses
• Grantee: Erick de Moraes Franklin
• Support Opportunities: Research Grants - Young Investigators Grants - Phase 2
• FAPESP's process: 20/15624-3 - Turbulent flow over bedforms: experiments
• Grantee: Jimmy Gabriel Alvarez Zambrano
• Support Opportunities: Scholarships in Brazil - Master
• FAPESP's process: 22/01758-3 - Turbulent flow interacting with dense granular media: perturbations on the flow structure
• Grantee: Danilo da Silva Borges
• Support Opportunities: Scholarships in Brazil - Post-Doctoral