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The motion of particle clouds (i.e., sediment clouds) usually can be found in engineering applications such as wastewater discharge, land reclamation, and marine bed capping. In this paper, a series of laboratory tests are conducted on coral sand to investigate the shape feature of the single particle and the mixing processes of the coral sand particle clouds. The shape of coral sand particle is measured and quantified. The experimental results demonstrate that the shape of coral sand particles tends to be spherical as the particle size decreases, and empirical equations were established to explain the variation of D50 and fS,50 of coral sand. Compared with the silica sand, the evolution of the coral sand particle cloud still experiences three stages, but the threshold for the Reynolds number of particle clouds entering the next stage changes. Further, the normalized axial distance of the coral sand particle clouds is 58% smaller. The frontal velocity exhibits similar varying tendency for the coral sand particle cloud. Considering the difference in shape between coral sand particles and silica sand particles, a semi-empirical formula was proposed based on the original silica sand prediction formula by adding the shape factor and the experimental data of 122 µm⩽D50⩽842 µm. It can predict the frontal velocity of the coral sand particle clouds.
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The study is financially supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (Grant No. 51839002, 51979014 and 52271257), the Natural Science Foundation of Hunan Province (Grant No. 2022JJ10047) and the Scientific Research Innovation Project of Hunan Graduate (Grant No. CX20200858).
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Chen, J., Yao, Z., Jiang, Cb. et al. Experiment Study of the Evolution of Coral Sand Particle Clouds in Water. China Ocean Eng 36, 720–733 (2022). https://doi.org/10.1007/s13344-022-0064-1
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