Behaviour of a floc population during a tidal cycle: Laboratory experiments and numerical modelling

Continental Shelf Research

Volumn 31, Issue 10 SUPPL., 2011, Pages

  Verney, Romaric ^a   Lafite, Robert ^b   Brun Cottan, Jean Claude ^c   Le Hir, Pierre ^a  

^a IFREMER   (France)

^b UNIVERSITÉ DE ROUEN   (France)

^c UNIVERSITÉ DE CAEN   (France)

Author keywords

0D model; Flocculation; FLOCMOD; Laboratory experiment; Optimization; Sensitivity analysis; Tidal cycle

Indexed keywords

ERROR ANALYSIS; FLOCCULATION; FRAGMENTATION; LABORATORY METHOD; MICROORGANISM; NUMERICAL MODEL; OPTIMIZATION; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; SHEAR; SIZE DISTRIBUTION; SOFTWARE; SUSPENDED SEDIMENT; TIDAL CYCLE; TURBULENCE;

EID: 79955845924     PISSN: 02784343     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.csr.2010.02.005     Document Type: Article

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