Idealized study on cohesive sediment flux by tidal asymmetry

Environmental Fluid Mechanics

Volumn 11, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 183-202

  Son, Minwoo ^a   Hsu, Tian Jian ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF DELAWARE   (United States)

Author keywords

Cohesive sediment; Erodibility; Flocculation; Sediment flux; Tidal asymmetry

Indexed keywords

ASYMMETRY; COHESIVE SEDIMENT; ERODIBILITY; ESTUARINE SEDIMENT; FLOCCULATION; NONLINEARITY; NUMERICAL MODEL; SEDIMENT TRANSPORT; SKEWNESS;

EID: 79952695039     PISSN: 15677419     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10652-010-9193-9     Document Type: Article

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