Dispersion coefficient of streams from tracer experiment data

Journal of Environmental Engineering

Volumn 129, Issue 6, 2003, Pages 539-546

  Singh, Sushil K ^a   Beck, M B ^b  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF HYDROLOGY   (India)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GEORGIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Coefficients; Dispersion; Optimization; Routing; Streams; Tracers

Indexed keywords

APPROXIMATION THEORY; DISPERSIONS; ERROR ANALYSIS; STREAM FLOW;

DISPERSION COEFFICIENTS;

ENVIRONMENTAL ENGINEERING;

DISPERSION; EXPERIMENTAL MEASUREMENT; OPTIMIZATION; TRACER;

DISPERSION; FLOW PATTERN; STREAM; TRACER;

EID: 0038205796     PISSN: 07339372     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1061/(ASCE)0733-9372(2003)129:6(539)     Document Type: Article

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