Backwater computation for transcritical river flows

Journal of Hydraulic Engineering

Volumn 122, Issue 12, 1996, Pages 745-748

  Beffa, C ^a,b  

^a c/o Bigler AG Engineering ^*  (Switzerland)

^b NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF WATER AND ATMOSPHERIC RESEARCH   (New Zealand)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CALCULATIONS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; HYDROSTATIC PRESSURE; RIVERS; ITERATIVE METHODS; OPEN CHANNEL FLOW; WATER;

BACKWATER COMPUTATION; ENERGY AND MOMENTUM EQUATIONS;

FLOW OF WATER; FROUDE NUMBER;

FROUDE NUMBER; OPEN CHANNEL; RIVER;

DISCRETE EQUATIONS; ENERGY EQUATION; FLOW DEPTH; FRICTION LOSS; MOMENTUM EQUATION; OPEN-CHANNEL FLOW; RIVER FLOW; ROUGH BED; SOLUTION LIMITS; TRANSCRITICAL;

EID: 0030317678     PISSN: 07339429     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1061/(ASCE)0733-9429(1996)122:12(745)     Document Type: Article

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