Spurs in river engineering - A preliminary study

31st IAHR Congress 2005: Water Engineering for the Future, Choices and Challenges

Volumn , Issue , 2005, Pages 1894-1901

  Gisonni, Corrado ^a   Hager, Willi H ^b   Unger, Jens ^b  

^a SECOND UNIVERSITY OF NAPLES   (Italy)

^b ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Bank protection; Groyne; Hydraulics; River training; Scour; Spur

Indexed keywords

BANKS (BODIES OF WATER); FLOW OF WATER; GEOMETRY; SCOUR;

ENVIRONMENTAL CONDITIONS; FLOW FEATURES; GRANULOMETRIES; RIVER BANK; RIVER ENGINEERING; STRAIGHT RIVERS; WATER FLOWS;

RIVERS;

EID: 38349102904     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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