Representing the bed roughness of coarse-grained streams in computational fluid dynamics

Earth Surface Processes and Landforms

Volumn 31, Issue 6, 2006, Pages 736-749

  Carney, Shaun K ^a,b   Bledsoe, Brian P ^b   Gessler, Daniel ^c  

^a RIVERSIDE TECHNOLOGY INC   (United States)

^b Engineering Research Center and Hydraulics Laboratory   (United States)

^c Alden Research Laboratory Inc   (United States)

Author keywords

CFD; FLUENT; Gravel; River morphology; Roughness

Indexed keywords

COMPUTATIONAL FLUID DYNAMICS; DRAG; GRAIN SIZE AND SHAPE; GRAVEL; HYDRAULICS; MORPHOLOGY; RIVERS; STREAM FLOW; SURFACE ROUGHNESS;

COARSE BEDS; COARSE-GRAINED STREAMS; COBBLE BEDS; SPATIALLY AVERAGED VELOCITY; TURBULENT KINETIC ENERGY;

FLOW PATTERNS;

COMPUTATIONAL FLUID DYNAMICS; DRAG; FLOW PATTERNS; GRAIN SIZE AND SHAPE; GRAVEL; HYDRAULICS; MORPHOLOGY; RIVERS; STREAM FLOW; SURFACE ROUGHNESS;

BED ROUGHNESS; COMPUTATIONAL FLUID DYNAMICS; FLOW PATTERN; MODELING;

EID: 33744486586     PISSN: 01979337     EISSN: 10969837     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/esp.1274     Document Type: Article

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