Experimental study of flash flood surges down a rough sloping channel

Water Resources Research

Volumn 40, Issue 3, 2004, Pages

  Chanson, H ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND   (Australia)

Author keywords

Air water flow; Boundary friction; Flash flood propagation; Sediment motion; Unsteady open channel flow

Indexed keywords

BUOYANCY; DAMS; DATA ACQUISITION; HYDROSTATIC PRESSURE; SEDIMENTATION; SLOPE PROTECTION; WAVE PROPAGATION; WAVEFRONTS;

RELATIVE DENSITY; WATERWAY;

FLOOD CONTROL;

FLOOD WAVE; FLUME; OPEN CHANNEL FLOW; WAVE PROPAGATION;

FLASH FLOOD; FLOOD WAVE; FLUME EXPERIMENT; OPEN CHANNEL FLOW; WAVE PROPAGATION;

GASTROPODA;

EID: 2042423931     PISSN: 00431397     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2003WR002662     Document Type: Article

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