Sediment movement under unidirectional flows: An assessment of empirical threshold curves

Coastal Engineering

Volumn 43, Issue 3-4, 2001, Pages 227-245

  Paphitis, D ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHAMPTON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Dimensionless grain number; Movability number; Shields curve; Threshold; Unidirectional flow; Yalin parameter

Indexed keywords

CURVE FITTING; PARTICLE SIZE ANALYSIS; SEDIMENTS;

THRESHOLD VALUES;

FLOW PATTERNS;

EMPIRICAL ANALYSIS; SEDIMENT TRANSPORT; THRESHOLD;

EID: 0035420461     PISSN: 03783839     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0378-3839(01)00015-1     Document Type: Article

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