EXPERIMENTAL STUDY OF RESERVOIR TURBIDITY CURRENT

Journal of Hydraulic Engineering

Volumn 123, Issue 6, 1997, Pages 520-528

  Lee, Hong Yuan ^a   Yu, Wei Sheng ^b  

^a NATIONAL TAIWAN UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^b Agricultural Engineering Research Center Chungli   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

OCEAN CURRENTS; SEDIMENT TRANSPORT; TURBIDITY; DISCHARGE (FLUID MECHANICS); FLOW MEASUREMENT; HYDRAULICS; KAOLIN; MATHEMATICAL TECHNIQUES; STREAM FLOW;

A-STABLE; DENSE LAYER; DENSIMETRIC FROUDE NUMBER; DOWN-STREAM; HYDRAULIC CHARACTERISTIC; SUSPENDED MATERIAL; TURBIDITY CURRENT; VOLUMETRIC FLOW RATE; WATER DEPTH; WATER DISCHARGES;

RESERVOIRS (WATER);

DENSIMETRIC FROUDE NUMBER; DIMENSIONLESS VELOCITY; PLUNGE REGION; TURBIDITY CURRENT;

CURRENTS; RESERVOIRS; TURBIDITY;

FLUME EXPERIMENT; PLUNGE POINT; RESERVOIR; SEDIMENT; TURBIDITY CURRENT;

EID: 0031168663     PISSN: 07339429     EISSN: 19437900     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1061/(ASCE)0733-9429(1997)123:6(520)     Document Type: Article

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