Modeling pre- and post-dam removal sediment dynamics: The Kalamazoo River, Michigan

Journal of the American Water Resources Association

Volumn 43, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 773-785

  Wells, Robert R ^a   Langendoen, Eddy J ^a   Simon, Andrew ^a  

^a USDA ARS NATIONAL SEDIMENTATION LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

Dams; Fluvial processes; Hydrodynamics; Numerical simulation; Rivers streams; Sediment transport

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; DAMS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; OPEN CHANNEL FLOW;

CHANNEL DESIGN; DOWNSTREAM BOUNDARY; FLUVIAL PROCESSES;

SEDIMENT TRANSPORT;

COMPUTER SIMULATION; DAMS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; OPEN CHANNEL FLOW; SEDIMENT TRANSPORT;

CHANNEL CHANGE; DAM REMOVAL; DEPOSITION; EROSION; SEDIMENT TRANSPORT;

KALAMAZOO RIVER; MICHIGAN; NORTH AMERICA; UNITED STATES;

EID: 34347393926     PISSN: 1093474X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1752-1688.2007.00062.x     Document Type: Article

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