Discharge estimation in open channels by means of water level hydrograph analysis

Journal of Hydraulic Research

Volumn 48, Issue 5, 2010, Pages 612-619

  Aricó, Costanza ^a   Corato, Giovanni ^a   Tucciarelli, Tullio ^a   Meftah, Mouldi Ben ^b   Petrillo, Antonio Felice ^b   Mossa, Michele ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PALERMO   (Italy)

^b POLITECNICO DI BARI   (Italy)

Author keywords

Calibration; discharge estimation; experimental validation; flow meter; shallow water flow

Indexed keywords

BED MATERIALS; DIFFUSIVE MODEL; DISCHARGE ESTIMATION; DISCHARGE HYDROGRAPH; EXPERIMENTAL VALIDATIONS; HYDROGRAPH ANALYSIS; HYDROGRAPHS; LABORATORY EXPERIMENTS; LEVEL SENSORS; NUMERICAL FLOW; OPEN CHANNELS; PARAMETER CALIBRATION; RIVER SECTION; ROUGHNESS COEFFICIENT; SAINT VENANT EQUATION; SHALLOW WATER FLOW; SYNCHRONOUS MEASUREMENTS;

CALIBRATION; ESTIMATION; FLOW MEASUREMENT; FLOW OF WATER; FLOWMETERS; HYDRAULICS; WATER LEVELS;

OPEN CHANNEL FLOW;

CALIBRATION; FLOW MEASUREMENT; HYDROGRAPH; OPEN CHANNEL FLOW; ROUGHNESS; SHALLOW WATER; WATER LEVEL;

EID: 77958565048     PISSN: 00221686     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/00221686.2010.507352     Document Type: Article

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