Flow regimes in gaps within stands of flexible vegetation: Laboratory flume simulations

Environmental Fluid Mechanics

Volumn 11, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 289-306

  Folkard, Andrew M ^a  

^a LANCASTER UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Bed shear stress; Flow regimes; Shear layer separation; Submerged aquatic vegetation; Turbulent boundary layer; Vegetation patches

Indexed keywords

BOTTOM STRESS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; FLUME EXPERIMENT; FROUDE NUMBER; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; REYNOLDS NUMBER; SHEAR STRESS; SUBMERGED VEGETATION; TURBULENT BOUNDARY LAYER; VEGETATION DYNAMICS; WAKE;

EID: 79955684956     PISSN: 15677419     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10652-010-9197-5     Document Type: Article

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