Advice, methods and tools for estimating channel roughness

Proceedings of the Institution of Civil Engineers: Water Management

Volumn 162, Issue 6, 2009, Pages 353-362

  McGahey, Caroline ^a   Knight, Donald W ^b   Samuels, Paul G ^a  

^a HR WALLINGFORD   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BIRMINGHAM   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Floods floodworks; Hydraulics hydrodynamics; River engineering

Indexed keywords

AVERAGE VALUES; BED MATERIALS; CHANNEL ROUGHNESS; DATA SETS; DISCHARGE CAPACITIES; ENERGY EXPENDITURE; ENVIRONMENT AGENCY; ESTIMATION SYSTEMS; FLOOD PLAINS; FLOOD RISK MANAGEMENT; FLOW PREDICTION; FLOW RESISTANCE; IN-CHANNELS; RELATIVE IMPORTANCE; RIVER ENGINEERING; RIVER SECTION;

ESTIMATION; FLOOD CONTROL; FLUID DYNAMICS; HYDRAULICS; HYDRODYNAMICS; RISK ANALYSIS; RISK MANAGEMENT; RIVERS; VEGETATION; WATER LEVELS;

FLOODS;

BED ROUGHNESS; CHANNEL FLOW; CHANNEL HYDRAULICS; DISCHARGE; FLOOD; FLOODPLAIN; HYDRODYNAMICS; RIVER BED; RIVER DISCHARGE; RIVER ENGINEERING;

EID: 77956400136     PISSN: 17417589     EISSN: 17517729     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1680/wama.2009.162.6.353     Document Type: Article

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