Using random walk models to simulate the vertical distribution of particles in a turbulent water column

Marine Ecology Progress Series

Volumn 158, Issue 1, 1997, Pages 275-281

  Visser, André W ^a  

^a TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF DENMARK   (Denmark)

Author keywords

Diffusivity; Numerical simulation; Random walk; Turbulence

Indexed keywords

MODEL; PARTICLE MOTION; SUSPENDED PARTICULATE MATTER; TURBULENCE; VERTICAL DISTRIBUTION;

EID: 0030713306     PISSN: 01718630     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3354/meps158275     Document Type: Article

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