Numerical modeling of flow processes over gravelly surfaces using structured grids and a numerical porosity treatment

Water Resources Research

Volumn 40, Issue 1, 2004, Pages

  Lane, S N ^a   Hardy, R J ^a   Elliot, L ^a   Ingham, D B ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LEEDS   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

CFD; Digital photogrammetry; Gravel bed rivers; Roughness

Indexed keywords

COMPUTATIONAL FLUID DYNAMICS; DATA REDUCTION; POROSITY; RIVERS; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; SURFACE PROPERTIES; TURBULENCE;

FLOW PROCESSES; STRUCTURED GRID;

WATER RESOURCES;

COMPUTATIONAL FLUID DYNAMICS; FLOW PATTERN; GRAVEL BED; MODELING; POROSITY; TOPOGRAPHY;

COMPUTATIONAL FLUID DYNAMICS; FLOW PATTERN; GRAVEL BED STREAM; MODELING; POROSITY; TOPOGRAPHY;

ALEUTIAN MINK DISEASE PARVOVIRUS (STRAIN G);

EID: 2542609962     PISSN: 00431397     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2002WR001934     Document Type: Article

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