The role of impulse on the initiation of particle movement under turbulent flow conditions

Science

Volumn 322, Issue 5902, 2008, Pages 717-720

  Diplas, Panayiotis ^a   Dancey, Clint L ^b   Celik, Ahmet O ^a   Valyrakis, Manousos ^a   Greer, Krista ^a,c   Akar, Tanju ^a,d  

^a VIRGINIA POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTE AND STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b State University   (United States)

^c LLP   (United States)

^d AKDENIZ UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANALYTICAL METHOD; EROSION; LABORATORY METHOD; PARTICLE MOTION; SEDIMENT TRANSPORT; SHEAR STRESS; TURBULENT FLOW;

ARTICLE; DYNAMICS; ENVIRONMENTAL EROSION; FORCE; IMPULSE; PHYSICS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEDIMENT; SHEAR STRESS; TURBULENT FLOW;

EID: 55349143183     PISSN: 00368075     EISSN: 10959203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1126/science.1158954     Document Type: Article

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22. We thank the NSF for financially supporting this study (grant EAR-0439663 to P.D. and C.L.D).