Development and testing of a numerical code for treatment of complex river channel topography in three-dimensional CFD models with structured grids

Journal of Hydraulic Research

Volumn 43, Issue 5, 2005, Pages 468-480

  Hardy, R J ^a   Lane, S N ^a   Lawless, Mark R ^b   Best, J L ^c   Elliott, Lionel ^c   Ingham, D B ^c  

^a DURHAM UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^b JBA CONSULTING   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF LEEDS   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Boundary roughness; CFD; DPIV; Porosity algorithm

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; BOUNDARY CONDITIONS; CHANNEL FLOW; COMPUTATIONAL FLUID DYNAMICS; COMPUTATIONAL GEOMETRY; COMPUTER SIMULATION; FLOW OF WATER; IMAGING TECHNIQUES; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; SURFACE ROUGHNESS; VELOCITY MEASUREMENT; WATER TREATMENT;

BOUNDARY ROUGHNESS; DIGITAL PARTICLE IMAGING VELOCIMETRY (DPIV); POROSITY ALGORITHM;

RIVERS;

FLOW VELOCITY; RIVER CHANNEL; ROUGHNESS; THREE-DIMENSIONAL FLOW; TOPOGRAPHY;

EID: 28844433164     PISSN: 00221686     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/00221680509500145     Document Type: Article

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