Numerical simulation of sharp-crested weir flows

Canadian Journal of Civil Engineering

Volumn 36, Issue 9, 2009, Pages 1530-1534

  Qu, J ^a   Ramamurthy, A S ^b   Tadayon, R ^b   Chen, Z ^b  

^a KGS Group   (Canada)

^b Dept of Electrical and Computer Engineering   (Canada)

Author keywords

Flow measurement; K turbulence model; Open channel flows; Sharp crested weir; VOF model

Indexed keywords

EXPERIMENTAL DATA; EXPERIMENTAL METHODS; FLOW CHARACTERISTIC; FLOW PARAMETERS; FREE SURFACES; GEOMETRIC PARAMETER; HYDRAULIC PARAMETERS; NUMERICAL MODELS; NUMERICAL SIMULATION; OPEN CHANNELS; PRESSURE HEADS; SHARP-CRESTED WEIR; THEORETICAL EXPRESSION; VOF MODEL; VOLUME OF FLUIDS; WATER SURFACE PROFILE; WEIR FLOW;

COMPUTER SIMULATION; FLOW MEASUREMENT; FLOWMETERS; HYDRAULIC STRUCTURES; TURBULENCE MODELS; WALL FLOW; WEIRS;

OPEN CHANNEL FLOW;

CHANNEL HYDRAULICS; EXPERIMENTAL STUDY; FLOW MEASUREMENT; NUMERICAL MODEL; OPEN CHANNEL FLOW; TURBULENCE; WEIR;

EID: 70350221743     PISSN: 03151468     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1139/L09-067     Document Type: Article

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