Dunes and alternate bars in tidal channels

Journal of Fluid Mechanics

Volumn 670, Issue , 2011, Pages 558-580

  Blondeaux, Paolo ^a   Vittori, Giovanna ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GENOA   (Italy)

Author keywords

coastal engineering; geophysical and geological flows; sediment transport

Indexed keywords

COASTAL ENGINEERING; LINEAR STABILITY ANALYSIS; OCEAN CURRENTS; SEDIMENT TRANSPORT; SEDIMENTATION;

ALGEBRAIC MODELING; BOUSSINESQ ASSUMPTION; FULL THREE-DIMENSIONAL; GEOPHYSICAL AND GEOLOGICAL FLOWS; IDEALIZED MODELS; PHYSICAL MECHANISM; QUANTITATIVE RESULT; SHORTER WAVELENGTH;

SUSPENDED SEDIMENTS;

ACCURACY ASSESSMENT; BEDFORM; BOTTOM TOPOGRAPHY; BOUSSINESQ EQUATION; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DEPOSITION; DUNE; DUNE FORMATION; EROSION RATE; HYDRODYNAMICS; MORPHODYNAMICS; NUMERICAL MODEL; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; REYNOLDS NUMBER; SANDBAR; SEAFLOOR; SEDIMENT BUDGET; SEDIMENT TRANSPORT; STABILITY ANALYSIS; THREE-DIMENSIONAL MODELING; TIDAL CHANNEL;

EID: 79952761036     PISSN: 00221120     EISSN: 14697645     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S0022112010005458     Document Type: Article

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