Suspended sediment concentration profiles in nonuniform flows: Is the classical perturbative approach suitable for depth-averaged closures?

Water Resources Research

Volumn 43, Issue 4, 2007, Pages

  Toffolon, Marco ^a   Vignoli, Gianluca ^a,b,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TRENTO   (Italy)

^b CISMA   (Italy)

^c CISMA Srl C o BIC Südtirol   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

APPROXIMATION THEORY; CONCENTRATION (PROCESS); PARAMETER ESTIMATION; PERTURBATION TECHNIQUES; SEDIMENTS; SUSPENSIONS (FLUIDS);

NUMERICAL MODEL; PERTURBATION PARAMETER; PERTURBATIVE MODEL;

FLOW OF WATER;

APPROXIMATION THEORY; CONCENTRATION (PROCESS); FLOW OF WATER; PARAMETER ESTIMATION; PERTURBATION TECHNIQUES; SEDIMENTS; SUSPENSIONS (FLUIDS);

CONCENTRATION (COMPOSITION); DEPTH; NUMERICAL MODEL; PERTURBATION; SEDIMENT TRANSPORT; SEDIMENTATION; SUSPENDED SEDIMENT;

EID: 34249000421     PISSN: 00431397     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2006WR005183     Document Type: Article

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