Transcritical shallow-water flow past topography: Finite-amplitude theory

Journal of Fluid Mechanics

Volumn 640, Issue , 2009, Pages 187-214

  El, G A ^a   Grimshaw, R H J ^a   Smyth, N F ^b  

^a LOUGHBOROUGH UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COASTAL ENGINEERING; DRAG; FLOW OF WATER; FROUDE NUMBER; HYDRAULIC JUMP; NONLINEAR EQUATIONS; SOLITONS; TOPOGRAPHY; WATER WAVES;

BOUSSINESQ-TYPE MODELS; FINITE AMPLITUDE WAVES; HYDRAULIC SOLUTIONS; LONG-WAVE APPROXIMATION; QUANTITATIVE DESCRIPTION; QUANTITATIVE FEATURES; SOLITARY WAVE AMPLITUDES; TRANSCRITICAL REGIMES;

RIVERS;

BOTTOM TOPOGRAPHY; BOUSSINESQ EQUATION; FROUDE NUMBER; NAVIER-STOKES EQUATIONS; NUMERICAL MODEL; SHALLOW-WATER EQUATION;

EID: 76349117687     PISSN: 00221120     EISSN: 14697645     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S0022112009991315     Document Type: Article

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