YANG Hongjuan, WEI Fangqiang, HU Kaiheng, CHERNOMORETS Sergey, HONG Yong, LI Xiaoyu, XIE Tao. 2011: Measuring the Internal Velocity of Debris Flows Using Impact Pressure Detecting in the Flume Experiment. Journal of Mountain Science, 8(2): 109-116. DOI: 10.1007/s11629-011-2083-x
Citation: YANG Hongjuan, WEI Fangqiang, HU Kaiheng, CHERNOMORETS Sergey, HONG Yong, LI Xiaoyu, XIE Tao. 2011: Measuring the Internal Velocity of Debris Flows Using Impact Pressure Detecting in the Flume Experiment. Journal of Mountain Science, 8(2): 109-116. DOI: 10.1007/s11629-011-2083-x

Measuring the Internal Velocity of Debris Flows Using Impact Pressure Detecting in the Flume Experiment

  • Measuring the internal velocity of debris flows is very important for debris flow dynamics research and designing debris flow control works. However, there is no appropriate method for measuring the internal velocity because of the destructive power of debris flow process. In this paper, we address this problem by using the relationship between velocity and kinetic pressure, as described by surface velocity and surface kinetic pressure data. Kinetic pressure is the difference of impact pressure and static pressure. The former is detected by force sensors installed in the flow direction at the sampling section. Observations show that static pressure can be computed using the formula for static water pressure by simply substituting water density for debris flow density. We describe the relationship between surface velocity and surface kinetic pressure using data from seven laboratory flume experiments. It is consistent with the relationship for single phase flow, which is the measurement principle of the Pitot tube.
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