Case study: 17th street canal breach closure procedures

Journal of Hydraulic Engineering

Volumn 134, Issue 11, 2008, Pages 1547-1558

  Sattar, Ahmed M Abdel ^a   Kassem, Ahmed A ^b   Chaudhry, M Hanif ^c  

^a CAIRO UNIVERSITY   (Egypt)

^b Helwan Univ ^*  (Egypt)

^c University of South Carolina   (United States)

Author keywords

Cofferdams; Levees; Open channel flow; Scale models

Indexed keywords

BRIDGES; COFFERDAMS; EMBANKMENTS; HIGHWAY BRIDGES; HYDRAULIC MODELS; LEVEES; OPEN CHANNEL FLOW; RIVER DIVERSION; ROADS AND STREETS;

CASE STUDIES; EXTENDING; FLOOD WALLS; FLOODING; FROUDE SIMILITUDES; HAMMOND; HURRICANE KATRINA; KATRINA; NEW ORLEANS; SCALE MODELS;

HYDRAULIC STRUCTURES;

COFFERDAM; FLOODING; FROUDE NUMBER; HYDROLOGICAL MODELING; LEVEE; NUMERICAL MODEL; OPEN CHANNEL FLOW; UNCERTAINTY ANALYSIS;

LOUISIANA; NEW ORLEANS; NORTH AMERICA; UNITED STATES;

EID: 54349123087     PISSN: 07339429     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1061/(ASCE)0733-9429(2008)134:11(1547)     Document Type: Article

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