Modeling a three-dimensional river plume over continental shelf using a 3D unstructured grid model

Proceedings of the International Conference on Estuarine and Coastal Modeling

Volumn , Issue , 2004, Pages 1027-1043

  Cheng, Ralph T ^a   Casulli, Vincenzo ^b  

^a U S GEOLOGICAL SURVEY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TRENTO   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; ESTUARIES; KINETIC ENERGY; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; TURBULENCE; WAVE PROPAGATION;

FRESH WATER; RIVER PLUME DYNAMICS; TURBULENT KINETIC ENERGY (TKE);

RIVERS;

EID: 11144226399     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1061/40734(145)62     Document Type: Conference Paper

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