El texto completo de este trabajo no está disponible en el Repositorio Académico UPC por restricciones de la casa editorial donde ha sido publicado. / This paper, evaluates a proposal for an external bend fluvial erosion control, using submerged vanes as velocity and shear stress control, verifying its effectiveness by modeling in Iber to calculate the scour produced by discharges with different return periods. The results indicate that the velocity, shear stress and scour decrease along the curve, due to submerged vanes.

Water quality in river systems is an important issue, and relies on various factors including our ability to predict how effluents from outfalls mix with river water. However, predicting mixing in rivers, and especially in river bends, remains a difficult problem to solve. The goal of this project is to develop a comprehensive picture of the mixing mechanisms of an effluent jet in a river bend. This is done with experiments in both bend flumes in the University of Ottawa Water Resources Engineering Laboratory. The large bend flume is 1 m in width, and contains a single 135° bend of radius 1.5 m, and the small flume has a channel width of 0.2 m with a 135° bend of radius 0.3 m. The experiments in the large flume used acoustic Doppler velocimeters to measure velocity, and the experiments in the small flume used particle image velocimetry to track flow fields. Large eddy simulation (LES) were also completed using the same channel geometry as the small flume. To complete the parametric analysis on mixing of a neutrally buoyant effluent jet in a channel bend, 35 flow conditions, from seven channel aspect ratios and five momentum ratios, are modelled using LES. Each flow condition is also modelled without the jet present. Particle image velocimetry data from the small bend flume validates the LES models. Additionally, acoustic Doppler velocimeter tests were completed in the large bend flume under two different flume flow rates, two jet flow rates, and two aspect ratios. These models and measurements provide a broad range of the parameters under investigation. The experiments in the large bend flume establish the shape of the jet's trajectory within the channel bend, and how it differs from a trajectory in a straight crossflow. From these experiments, it is established that the centre position of the secondary circulation cell is an important parameter for determining the position of the jet. Through the LES models, more details of the 3D velocity and effluent distributions are available, allowing for a detailed analysis of how the secondary circulation develops and how the jet vortices change the development patterns. A method for clustering instantaneous vortices to separate sub-cells of secondary circulation is established, and is used to set a baseline for the development of secondary flow in a channel bend without a jet. The effect of an added jet was investigated in detail for a single flow condition, and then with machine learning techniques to develop a parametrical model incorporating both channel and jet flow conditions. The best performing machine learning model for the parametrisation of secondary flow cells with the jet is the ANFIS model coupled with a decision tree classifying the presence of each sub-cell; without the jet, the best-performing model is the ANFIS model without any additional classification. The effluent distribution is well-characterised using multiple linear regression. The addition of a jet changes the relative strengths of secondary circulation sub-cells and their circulation development and retention characteristics, though the total circulation in the bend is not strongly affected by the jet.

La presente tesis tiene como objetivo evaluar una propuesta para el control de erosión fluvial de la curva externa del rio Rimác ubicada entre los sectores Cantagallo y La Perla en Chosica, verificando su eficacia a través de un modelamiento con fines de calcular la socavación producida para diferentes periodos de retorno y proponer como estructura de control a las paletas sumergidas, comparando ambos resultados obtenidos para evaluar sus beneficios. El tramo escogido presentó fallas en los muros de contención ubicados a lo largo del cauce según un estudio previo realizado por el INGEMMET, por lo que es necesario mejorar la infraestructura ya construida, por lo que la presencia de las paletas sumergidas podría actuar como tal. Por este motivo, el modelamiento hidráulico, realizado en el software Iber, nos permitirá conocer el comportamiento del río para obtener las variables de diseño y conocer los valores de velocidades y esfuerzos cortantes de fondo producidos en la curva externa. Se realizó la simulación para dos escenarios, uno considerando las máximas avenidas producidas en años previos y el segundo despreciando dichos valores. Esto nos permite comparar las dimensiones y comportamiento de ambas estructuras para un futuro diseño. Finalmente, en ambos escenarios se verificó que la presencia de las paletas sumergidas en la curva externa reduce los niveles de erosión local y general producido para los diferentes caudales simulados, por lo que resulta una estructura viable a ser aplicada como medida de control. / The objective of this thesis is to evaluate a proposal for the control of fluvial erosion of the external bend of the Rimac river located between the Cantagallo and La Perla sectors in Chosica, verifying its effectiveness through a modeling in order to calculate the undercut produced for different return periods and propose submerged vanes as a control structure, comparing both results obtained to evaluate their benefits. The chosen section presented failures in the retaining walls located along the channel according to a previous study carried out by INGEMMET, so it is necessary to improve the infrastructure already built, so the presence of the submerged vanes could act as such. For this reason, the hydraulic modeling, carried out in the Iber software, will allow us to know the behavior of the river to obtain the design variables and to know the values of speeds and shear stresses produced in the external bend. The simulation was performed for two scenarios, one considering the maximum avenues produced in previous years and the second disregarding these values. This allows us to compare the dimensions and behavior of both structures for a future design. Finally, in both scenarios it was verified that the presence of the submerged vanes in the external curve reduces the levels of local and general scour produced for the different simulated flows, making it a viable structure to be applied as a control measure. / Tesis