Lateral momentum flux and the spatial evolution of flow within a confluence mixing interface

Water Resources Research

Volumn 44, Issue 8, 2008, Pages

  Rhoads, Bruce L ^a   Sukhodolov, Alexander N ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT URBANA CHAMPAIGN   (United States)

^b LEIBNIZ INSTITUTE OF FRESHWATER ECOLOGY AND INLAND FISHERIES   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DIGITAL SIGNAL PROCESSING; FLUXES; MOMENTUM; RIVERS; TURBULENCE; WAKES;

CONVECTIVE ACCELERATIONS; CONVERGING FLOW; DOWNSTREAM CHANNELS; DOWNSTREAM VELOCITY; INHIBITING EFFECTS; LATERAL EXPANSION; LATERAL MOMENTUM; LOW FREQUENCIES; LOW-FREQUENCY OSCILLATIONS; MEAN FLOWS; MEAN VELOCITIES; MIXING LAYERS; ORDERS-OF-MAGNITUDE; SPATIAL EVOLUTION; STAGNATION ZONES; SURFACE VELOCITIES; TURBULENCE KINETIC ENERGY; TURBULENT VORTICES;

MIXING;

KINETIC ENERGY; MOMENTUM TRANSFER; STAGNATION FLOW; STREAM; STREAMFLOW;

EID: 53849105775     PISSN: 00431397     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2007WR006634     Document Type: Article

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