Efforts to reduce mortality to hydroelectric turbine-passed fish: Locating and quantifying damaging shear stresses

Environmental Management

Volumn 37, Issue 6, 2006, Pages 898-906

  Čada, Glenn ^a   Loar, James ^a   Garrison, Laura ^b   Fisher Jr , Richard ^c   Neitzel, Duane ^d  

^a OAK RIDGE NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^b YORK COLLEGE OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

^c Voith Paper GmbH and Co KG   (Germany)

^d PACIFIC NORTHWEST NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

Fish; Fluid Stresses; Hydroelectric turbine; Mortality

Indexed keywords

BIOASSAY; COMPUTATION THEORY; FISHERIES; FLUID DYNAMICS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; SHEAR STRESS; TURBINES;

FISH; FLUID STRESSES; HYDROELECTRIC TURBINES; MORTALITY;

ECOSYSTEMS;

BIOASSAY; COMPUTATIONAL FLUID DYNAMICS; FISH; HYDROELECTRIC POWER; MORTALITY; TURBINE;

ARTICLE; BIOASSAY; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; ELECTRIC POWER PLANT; ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT; FISH; MORTALITY; NONHUMAN; SHEAR STRESS; SURVIVAL;

ANIMALS; BIOLOGICAL ASSAY; CONSERVATION OF NATURAL RESOURCES; FISHES; MORTALITY; ONCORHYNCHUS KISUTCH; POWER PLANTS; WATER MOVEMENTS; WATER SUPPLY;

EID: 33646044085     PISSN: 0364152X     EISSN: 14321009     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00267-005-0061-1     Document Type: Article

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