Variation in bed level shear stress on surface sheltered by nonerodible roughness elements

Journal of Geophysical Research: Earth Surface

Volumn 113, Issue 3, 2008, Pages

  Sutton, Stephen L F ^a   McKenna Neuman, Cheryl ^a  

^a TRENT UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BOUNDARY LAYER; COMPRESSION; FLUID FLOW; PRESSURE GRADIENT; ROUGHNESS; SHEAR STRESS; TURBULENCE; WIND TUNNEL;

EID: 56649099001     PISSN: None     EISSN: 21699011     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2007JF000967     Document Type: Article

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