School of Geographical Sciences and Urban Planning

River Dynamics Lab

General Interests
Current Research Projects  
Selected Publications
Courses
Turbulence and Sediment Modeling
Laboratory

 

General Interests
My research interest is in landscape mechanics with a primary focus on fluvial geomorphology, sediment transport, and surface water processes.

Current Research Projects

• I am developing a suite of turbulent flow and sediment transport simulations/software in a range of river flows using OpenFoam. In some cases I use the solvers provided in the OpenFoam installation. In other cases I have modified the solvers. I will try to post any modified code and the OpenFoam setup files in the links below so that others can run these cases or develop their own turbulence and sediment simulations.
  

DES of Grand Canyon Eddy

DES Meander , 3D RANS, 2D Depth-Averaged Flow Models	DES Flow Through Cylinders

DES over ripples	Suspended Sediment over Ripples driven by DES

LES over a flat bed	Suspended Sediment driven by LES flow over flat bed

Publications

• QB Travis, MW Schmeeckle, DM Sebert (2011) Meta-Analysis of 301 Slope Failure Calculations. I: Database Description. Journal of Geotechnical and Geoenvironmental Engineering, DOI:10.1061/(ASCE)GT.1943-5606.0000461

• QB Travis, MW Schmeeckle, DM Sebert (2011) Meta-Analysis of 301 Slope Failure Calculations. II: Database Analysis. Journal of Geotechnical and Geoenvironmental Engineering, DOI:10.1061/(ASCE)GT.1943-5606.0000463

• Travis, Q., Houston, S., Marinho, F. and Schmeeckle, M. (2010) Unsaturated Infinite Slope Stability Considering Surface Flux Conditions. Journal of Geotechnical and Geoenvironmental Engineering, 963-974.963-974

• Furbish, D., Childs, E., Haff, P. and Schmeeckle, M. (2009) Rain splash of soil grains as a stochastic advection-dispersion process, with implications for desert plant-soil interactions and land-surface evolution. Journal of Geophysical Research-Earth Surface, VOL. 114, F00A03, 18 PP.

• Douglass, J., N Meek, R I Dorn, and M W Schmeeckle (2009), A criteria-based methodology for determining the mechanism of transverse drainage development, with application to the southwestern USA, Geological Society of America Bulletin, 121,586-59. doi:10.1130/B26131.1.

• Akahori, R., M.W. Schmeeckle, D.J. Topping, and T.S. Melis (2008). Erosion properties of cohesive sediments in the Colorado River in Grand Canyon. River Research and Applications.DOI: 10.1002/rra.1122.

• Furbish, D. J., M.W. Schmeeckle, J.J. Roering. (2008). Thermal and force-chain effects in an experimental, sloping, granular shear flow. Earth Surface Processes and Landforms. DOI: 10.1002/esp.1655.

• Schmeeckle, M. W., J. M. Nelson, and R. L. Shreve (2007), Forces on stationary particles in near-bed turbulent flows, Journal of Geophysical Research, 112, F02003.

• Douglass, J.C. and M.W. Schmeeckle (2007), Analogue modeling of transverse drainage mechanisms, Geomorphology, Vol. 84, 22-43.

• Furbish, D. J., K. K. Hamner, M.W. Schmeeckle, M. N. Borosund, and S. M. Mudd (2007), Rain splash of dry sand revealed by high-speed imaging and sticky paper splash targets, Journal of Geophysical Research, 112, F01001.

• Mango, A.J., M.W. Schmeeckle, and D.J. Furbish. 2004. Tidally-induced groundwater circulation in an unconfined coastal aquifer modeled with a Hele-Shaw cell. Geology. 32(3). P233-236.

• Schmeeckle, M.W. and J.M. Nelson. 2003. Direct numerical simulation of bedload transport using a local, dynamic boundary condition. Sedimentology. Vol 50. p279-301.

• Schmeeckle, M.W., J.M. Nelson, J. Pitlick and J.P. Bennett. 2001. Interparticle collision of natural sediment grains in water. Water Resources Research. Vol. 37(9).p 2377-2392.

• Y Shimizu, M W. Schmeeckle and J Nelson, 2001, Direct Numerical Simulation of Turbulence Over Two Dimensional Dunes Using CIP Method, Journal of Hydroscience and Hydraulic Engineering, Vol. 19, No.2, 85-92, 2001.

• Shimizu, Y., M.W. Schmeeckle, and J.M. Nelson. 2000. Three-dimensional calculation of flow over two-dimensional dunes. Annual Journal of Hydraulic Engineering, Japan Society of Civil Engineers. p-623-628.

• S. Nakayama, Y. Shimizu, M.W. Schmeeckle, and R. Akahori. 2000. Numerical calculation of suspended sediments over sand waves. Annual Journal of Hydraulic Engineering, Japan Society of Civil Engineers. p629-634.

• Schmeeckle, M.W. 1999. A dynamic boundary condition for bedload sediment transport in non-uniform, hydraulically rough turbulent boundary layers. Annual Journal of Hydraulic Engineering, Japan Society of Civil Engineers. p653-658.

• Nelson, J.M., M.W. Schmeeckle, R.L. Shreve, and S.R. McLean. 2001. Sediment entrainment and transport in complex flows. In G. Seminara and P. Blondeux Editors, River, Coastal, and Estuarine Morphodynamics. Heidleberg, Springer-Verlag. p.1-26.

• Nelson, J.M., M.W. Schmeeckle, and R.L. Shreve., 2001., Turbulence and Particle Entrainment. In M.P. Mosley Editor: Gravel Bed Rivers V. Water Resources Publications, LLC. p. 221-248.

• Akahori, R, and M.W. Schmeeckle. 2006. Numerical Analysis of Secondary-Flow around a Spur Dike using Three-Dimensional Free Water Surface LES Model. In (G. Parker and MH Garcia eds.) River Coastal and Estuarine Morphodynamics: RCEM 2005. Taylor & Francis Group, p. 921-930.

• Nelson J.M., A.R. Burman, Y. Shimizu, S.R. McLean, R.L. Shreve, and M.W. Schmeeckle. 2006. Computing Flow and Sediment Transport Over Bedforms. In (G. Parker and MH Garcia eds.) River Coastal and Estuarine Morphodynamics: RCEM 2005. Taylor & Francis Group, p 861-872.

• Nelson, J. M., Schmeeckle, M. W., and Shreve, R. L., 2001, Entrainment revisited: high-frequency measurements of forces on sediment particles in turbulent flow: p. 110-117, ch. XI, in Proceedings of the 7th Federal Interagency Sedimentation Conference, 25-29 March 2001,Reno, Nevada

• Schmeeckle, M.W., Y. Shimizu, K. Hoshi, H. Baba, and S. Ikezaki. 1999. Turbulent structures and suspended sediment over two-dimensional dunes. In River Coastal and Estuarine Morphodynamics, IAHR Symposium, Genova, Italy, p261-270.

• Shimizu, Y., M.W. Schmeeckle, K. Hoshi, and K. Tateya. 1999. Numerical simulation of turbulence over two-dimensional dunes. In River Coastal and Estuarine Morphodynamics, IAHR　Symposium, Genova, Italy, p251-260.

• Schmeeckle, M.W., J.M. Nelson and J. Pitlick. 1998. Direct numerical simulation of bedload sediment transport. In H. Murakami and J.E. Luco, editors, 12th ASCE Engineering Mechanics Conference Proceedings, San Diego. American Society of Civil Engineers.

• Yager, E.M. and M.W. Schmeeckle. The influence of emergent vegetation on turbulence and sediment transport in rivers. The Fifth International Symposium on Environmental Hydraulics. Tempe, AZ, Dec 4-7, 2007. 6 pages.

• Balasubramanian S, S Voropayev, HJS Fernando, MW Schmeeckle. Ripple Dynamics and Sediment Transport Under Oscillatory Flow and Trubulence. The Fifth International Symposium on Environmental Hydraulics. Tempe, AZ, Dec 4-7, 2007. 6 pages.

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