ONE-DIMENSIONAL DAM-BREAK SOLUTIONS FOR VARIABLE WIDTH CHANNELS

Journal of Hydraulic Engineering

Volumn 123, Issue 5, 1997, Pages 464-468

  Hicks, F E ^a   Steffler, P M ^a   Yasmin, N ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA   (Canada)

^b The University of Mississippi   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DAMS; FINITE DIFFERENCE METHOD; FINITE ELEMENT METHOD; NUMERICAL MODELS; CHANNEL FLOW; MATHEMATICAL MODELS;

DAM BREAK FLOODS; DAM-BREAKS; FOUR-POINT; MODEL DAMS; NUMERICAL SOLUTION; ONE-DIMENSIONAL; POINT IMPLICIT; PRACTICING ENGINEERS; TWO-DIMENSIONAL; VARIABLE WIDTH;

NUMERICAL METHODS; FLOODS;

CHARACTERISTIC DISSIPATIVE GALERKIN FINITE ELEMENT METHOD; DAM BREAK FLOODS; ST. VENANT EQUATIONS;

CHANNELS; DAM FAILURE; FLOODS; FLUMES; MODELLING;

CHANNEL WIDTH; DAM BREAK FLOOD; NUMERICAL MODEL; ONE DIMENSIONAL; VARIATION;

EID: 0031147884     PISSN: 07339429     EISSN: 19437900     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1061/(ASCE)0733-9429(1997)123:5(464)     Document Type: Article

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