Development of an empirical model for calculating sediment-transport capacity in shallow overland flows: Model calibration

Biosystems Engineering

Volumn 103, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 245-255

  Guy, Brian T ^a   Dickenson, W Trevor ^b   Sohrabi, Teymour M ^c   Rudra, Ramesh P ^b  

^a Summit Environmental Consultants Ltd   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GUELPH   (Canada)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TEHRAN   (Iran)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FLOW OF WATER; FLOW RATE; HYDRAULICS; LAMINAR FLOW; PARTICLE SIZE; REYNOLDS NUMBER; SEDIMENT TRANSPORT; SEDIMENTATION; SHEAR STRESS;

HYDRAULIC MEASUREMENTS; LAMINAR FLOW REGIMES; MODEL INTERPRETATIONS; RAINFALL SIMULATORS; SEDIMENT TRANSPORT CAPACITY; SHALLOW OVERLAND FLOWS; TRANSPORT COMPONENT; VELOCITY PROFILE MODEL;

RAIN;

EID: 67349097460     PISSN: 15375110     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.biosystemseng.2009.02.013     Document Type: Article

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