Energy Dissipation of Debris Flow through Pile Group Obstructions

摘要

Since the devastating Sichuan Earthquake on May 12, 2008, large-scale landslides and debris flows are predicted to occur in these populous areas over the next 10-30 years. In order to prevent and mitigate the geological disasters, it is of great importance to better understand the mechanism of granular flows and to predict their temporal and spatial scales in an efficient way. In this work, we develop a Roe-type finite volume model of the Savage-Hutter equations. Unstructured grid of either triangular or quadrilateral cells is used to match natural topography wells. After appropriately selecting bed and internal friction coefficients, we conduct a series of numerical flume experiments to simulate debris flow passing through pile group obstruction, which is commonly used in damping the kinetic energy of debris flows. Pile group of different spatial patterns are decorated in the downstream of the flume, and the influences of the spatial distributions of pile group obstruction to their damping effect are investigated.