Characteristics of velocity and excess density profiles of saline underflows and turbidity currents flowing over a mobile bed

Journal of Hydraulic Engineering

Volumn 136, Issue 7, 2010, Pages 412-433

  Sequeiros, Octavio E ^a,b   Spinewine, Benoit ^a,c,d   Beaubouef, Rick T ^e,f   Sun, Tao ^e   García, Marcelo H ^a   Parker, Gary ^a,g  

^a University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign   (United States)

^b SHELL GLOBAL SOLUTIONS INTERNATIONAL B V   (United States)

^c FNRS   (Belgium)

^d UNIVERSITÉ CATHOLIQUE DE LOUVAIN   (Belgium)

^e EXXONMOBIL UPSTREAM RESEARCH COMPANY   (United States)

^f HESS CORPORATION   (United States)

^g UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT URBANA CHAMPAIGN   (United States)

Author keywords

Bedforms; Density currents; Subcritical flows; Supercritical flows; Vertical profiles

Indexed keywords

BEDFORMS; DENSITY CURRENTS; SUBCRITICAL FLOW; SUPERCRITICAL FLOW; VERTICAL PROFILE; 'CURRENT; BED LOAD; CRITICAL FLOW; DENSITY PROFILE; FLOW PROFILE; SUPERCRITICAL; TURBIDITY CURRENT;

EQUATIONS OF MOTION; EXPERIMENTS; FLOW OF WATER; FROUDE NUMBER; SEDIMENT TRANSPORT; TURBIDITY; VELOCITY; FINITE DIFFERENCE METHOD; OCEAN CURRENTS; SEDIMENTATION; SUSPENDED SEDIMENTS;

OCEAN CURRENTS; SEDIMENT TRANSPORT;

BEDFORM; DENSITY CURRENT; FLOW VELOCITY; FROUDE NUMBER; RICHARDSON NUMBER; SUBMARINE CANYON; SUPERCRITICAL FLOW; SUSPENDED SEDIMENT; TURBIDITY CURRENT; VERTICAL PROFILE;

MONTEREY CANYON; PACIFIC OCEAN;

EID: 77955639730     PISSN: 07339429     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1061/(ASCE)HY.1943-7900.0000200     Document Type: Article

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