Probability of Individual Grain Movement and Threshold Condition

Journal of Hydraulic Engineering

Volumn 128, Issue 12, 2002, Pages 1069-1075

  Dancey, Clinton L ^a   Diplas, Panayiotis ^a   Papanicolaou, Athanasios ^b   Bala, Mahesh ^c  

^a VIRGINIA POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTE AND STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b Washington State University   (United States)

^c HEC Inc   (United States)

Author keywords

Bed loads; Grains; Probability; Sediment

Indexed keywords

BED LOAD; EXPERIMENTAL CHARACTERIZATION; EXPERIMENTAL INVESTIGATIONS; INDIVIDUAL GRAINS; ISOLATED GRAINS; SEDIMENT MOVEMENT; SEDIMENT PACKING DENSITY; THRESHOLD CONDITION; TIME-SCALES; UNIFORM SIZE;

SEDIMENT TRANSPORT; GRAIN SIZE AND SHAPE;

SEDIMENT TRANSPORT; TURBULENT FLOW;

GRAIN MOVEMENT;

BED; RIVER; SEDIMENT; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS;

EID: 0036931670     PISSN: 07339429     EISSN: 19437900     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1061/(ASCE)0733-9429(2002)128:12(1069)     Document Type: Article

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