Emergence of coherent flow structures over a gravel surface: A numerical experiment

Water Resources Research

Volumn 43, Issue 3, 2007, Pages

  Hardy, Richard J ^a   Lane, Stuart N ^a   Ferguson, Robert I ^a   Parsons, Daniel R ^b  

^a DURHAM UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LEEDS   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FLOW MEASUREMENT; FLOW VISUALIZATION; LARGE EDDY SIMULATION; MORPHOLOGY; NUMERICAL METHODS;

BED TOPOGRAPHY; FLOW VARIABILITY; GRAVEL SURFACE; SHALLOW FLOW;

FLOW STRUCTURE;

FLOW MEASUREMENT; FLOW STRUCTURE; FLOW VISUALIZATION; LARGE EDDY SIMULATION; MORPHOLOGY; NUMERICAL METHODS;

CLAST; COHORT ANALYSIS; EXPERIMENTAL STUDY; FLOW STRUCTURE; GRAVEL BED STREAM; LARGE EDDY SIMULATION; NUMERICAL MODEL; RIVER BED; VISUALIZATION; VORTICITY;

EID: 34247634530     PISSN: 00431397     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2006WR004936     Document Type: Article

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