Estimating longitudinal dispersion in rivers using Acoustic Doppler Current Profilers

Advances in Water Resources

Volumn 33, Issue 6, 2010, Pages 615-623

  Shen, Chaopeng ^a   Niu, Jie ^a   Anderson, Eric J ^b   Phanikumar, Mantha S ^a  

^a Michigan State University   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

Author keywords

Acoustic Doppler Current Profiler; ADCP; Dispersion; Rhodamine WT; Solute transport; Tracer; Transient storage

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTIC DOPPLER CURRENT PROFILER; ACOUSTIC DOPPLER CURRENT PROFILERS; ADVECTION-DISPERSION EQUATION; DATA SETS; DEAD ZONES; DISPERSION COEFFICIENT; EMPIRICAL RELATIONS; FLOW DISPERSIONS; HIGH FLOW; LARGE RIVERS; LONGITUDINAL DISPERSION COEFFICIENT; LONGITUDINAL DISPERSIONS; MEDIAN VALUE; ORDER OF MAGNITUDE; RELATIVE IMPORTANCE; RHODAMINE WT; RIVER SITES; STORAGE ZONES; T-S MODELING; TRACER METHODS; TRACER STUDY; TRANSIENT STORAGE; WEIGHTED AVERAGES;

ADVECTION; BOLTZMANN EQUATION; DOPPLER EFFECT; RIVERS; SHEAR FLOW; SOLUTE TRANSPORT; VELOCITY MEASUREMENT;

DISPERSIONS;

ACOUSTIC DOPPLER CURRENT PROFILER; ADVECTION-DIFFUSION EQUATION; DISPERSION; HYDRODYNAMICS; RIVER FLOW; SHEAR FLOW; SOLUTE TRANSPORT; STREAMFLOW; TRACER;

EID: 77953128278     PISSN: 03091708     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.advwatres.2010.02.008     Document Type: Article

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