A semi-permanent method for fixing sand beds in laboratory flumes

Journal of Hydraulic Research

Volumn 48, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 377-382

  Kashyap, Shalini ^a   Doutreleau, Benoît ^b   Bou Botros, Georges ^c   Rennie, Colin D ^a   Townsend, Ronald ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OTTAWA   (Canada)

^b GRENOBLE INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (France)

^c SAINT JOSEPH UNIVERSITY   (Lebanon)

Author keywords

Alluvial channel; bed fixation; bed hardening; morphology; roughness; transitional flow

Indexed keywords

ALLUVIAL CHANNEL; ALLUVIAL CHANNELS; BED FIXATION; BED ROUGHNESS; BED SHEAR STRESSS; FIXED BED; FLOW CONDITION; FLOWING WATERS; MEAN ABSOLUTE DIFFERENCES; PLASTER OF PARIS; PLEXIGLAS; SAND-BEDS; SEDIMENT SIZE; STANDARD DEVIATION; TRANSITIONAL FLOW;

MORPHOLOGY; SEDIMENTOLOGY; TRANSITION FLOW;

HARDENING;

ALLUVIAL DEPOSIT; BED ROUGHNESS; CHANNEL MORPHOLOGY; DURABILITY; FLUME EXPERIMENT; GYPSUM; HARDENING; PLASTIC; SANDBANK; SEDIMENT THICKNESS; SHEAR STRESS; STREAMFLOW;

EID: 77954900541     PISSN: 00221686     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/00221686.2010.481831     Document Type: Article

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