OPTIMAL ESTIMATION OF ROUGHNESS IN OPEN-CHANNEL FLOWS

Journal of Hydraulic Engineering

Volumn 126, Issue 4, 2000, Pages 299-303

  Ramesh, R ^a   Datta, Bithin ^a   Bhallamudi, S Murty ^a   Narayana, A ^a  

^a INDIAN INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY KANPUR   (India)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

FINITE DIFFERENCE METHOD; FLOW MEASUREMENT; INVERSE PROBLEMS; QUADRATIC PROGRAMMING; ALGORITHMS; APPROXIMATION THEORY; DISCHARGE (FLUID MECHANICS); MATHEMATICAL MODELS; NONLINEAR PROGRAMMING; PARAMETER ESTIMATION;

EMBEDDED OPTIMIZATIONS; FINITE DIFFERENCE APPROXIMATIONS; FLOW DEPTH; FLOW DISCHARGES; GOVERNING EQUATIONS; MEASUREMENT DATA; NONLINEAR OPTIMIZATION MODEL; OPEN-CHANNEL FLOW; OPTIMAL ESTIMATIONS; OPTIMIZATION MODELS;

OPEN CHANNEL FLOW;

CONTINUITY EQUATIONS; MOMENTUM EQUATIONS;

DATA PROCESSING; MATHEMATICAL ANALYSIS; OPEN CHANNEL FLOW; ROUGHNESS;

EID: 0034173869     PISSN: 07339429     EISSN: 19437900     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1061/(ASCE)0733-9429(2000)126:4(299)     Document Type: Article

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