Reducing Erosion of Earthen Levees Using Engineered Flood Wall Surface

Journal of Geotechnical and Geoenvironmental Engineering

Volumn 137, Issue 10, 2011, Pages 874-881

  Song, Chung R ^a   Kim, Jinwon ^a   Wang, Ge ^a   Cheng, Alexander H D ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MISSISSIPPI   (United States)

Author keywords

Erosion; Hydrodynamics; Levee; Overtopping; UMETB

Indexed keywords

EROSION DEPTH; EROSION FAILURE; EROSION RESISTANCE; EXPERIMENTAL RESEARCH; FLOOD PROTECTION; FLOW-3D; HURRICANE KATRINA; HYDRODYNAMICS SIMULATIONS; LEVEE SYSTEM; NEW ORLEANS; OVERTOPPING; PROTECTIVE STRUCTURES; TEST RESULTS; UMETB; WALL SURFACES;

FLOOD CONTROL; HYDRODYNAMICS; LEVEES;

EROSION;

EROSION CONTROL; FLOOD CONTROL; HYDRODYNAMICS; LEVEE; OVERTOPPING; RESEARCH WORK;

EID: 79955071550     PISSN: 10900241     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1061/(ASCE)GT.1943-5606.0000500     Document Type: Article

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