Flow separation and resuspension beneath shoaling nonlinear internal waves

Journal of Geophysical Research: Oceans

Volumn 114, Issue 2, 2009, Pages

  Boegman, Leon ^a   Ivey, Gregory N ^b  

^a QUEEN S UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN AUSTRALIA   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CHANNEL FLOW; FLOW SEPARATION; PRESSURE GRADIENT; REYNOLDS NUMBER;

ADVERSE PRESSURE GRADIENT; BED MATERIALS; FIELD OBSERVATIONS; NONLINEAR INTERNAL WAVE; RE-SUSPENSION; REAR FACE; RESUSPENSION EVENTS; REYNOLDS STRESS; SEDIMENT MOTION; SHOALING WAVES; STRUCTURE AND DYNAMICS; TURBULENT BOTTOM BOUNDARY LAYERS; TURBULENT CHANNEL FLOWS; VERTICAL VELOCITY; VISCOUS STRESS; VORTICAL STRUCTURES;

VISCOUS FLOW;

BENTHIC BOUNDARY LAYER; CHANNEL FLOW; INTERNAL WAVE; PRESSURE GRADIENT; RESUSPENSION; TURBULENT BOUNDARY LAYER; VELOCITY PROFILE; VISCOUS FLOW; VORTICITY; WAKE;

EID: 66149173552     PISSN: None     EISSN: 21699291     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2007JC004411     Document Type: Article

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