Dataset of turbulent flow over interacting barchan dunes

Jimmy G Alvarez; Danilo S Borges; Erick M Franklin

doi:10.1016/j.dib.2023.109978

Dataset of turbulent flow over interacting barchan dunes

Data Brief. 2023 Dec 17:52:109978. doi: 10.1016/j.dib.2023.109978. eCollection 2024 Feb.

Authors

Jimmy G Alvarez¹, Danilo S Borges¹, Erick M Franklin¹

Affiliation

¹ Faculdade de Engenharia Mecânica, Universidade Estadual de Campinas (UNICAMP), Rua Mendeleyev, 200, Campinas, SP 13083-860, Brazil.

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.

Keywords: Barchan dunes; Bedforms; Boundary layer; Disturbance; Interactions; Water flow.