Turbulent flow field in a scour hole at a semicircular abutment

Canadian Journal of Civil Engineering

Volumn 32, Issue 1, 2005, Pages 213-232

  Dey, Subhasish ^a   Barbhuiya, Abdul Karim ^b  

^a INDIAN INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (India)

^b NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY SILCHAR   (India)

Author keywords

Bridge abutments; Fluid flow; Hydraulic engineering; Open channel flow; Scour; Sediment transport; Three dimensional flow; Turbulent flow

Indexed keywords

ABUTMENTS (BRIDGE); KINETIC ENERGY; SCOUR; SHEAR STRESS; ULTRASONIC DOPPLER VELOCIMETERS; VECTORS; VORTEX FLOW;

FLOW FIELDS; REYNOLD STRESSES; SCOUR HOLES; VELOCITY GRADIENTS;

TURBULENT FLOW;

SCOUR; TURBULENT FLOW;

EID: 21244438649     PISSN: 03151468     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1139/l04-082     Document Type: Article

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