Structure of turbulent flow at a river confluence with momentum and velocity ratios close to 1: Insight provided by an eddy-resolving numerical simulation

Water Resources Research

Volumn 47, Issue 5, 2011, Pages

  Constantinescu, George ^a   Miyawaki, Shinjiro ^a   Rhoads, Bruce ^b   Sukhodolov, Alexander ^c   Kirkil, Gokhan ^a,d  

^a IA United States   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT URBANA CHAMPAIGN   (United States)

^c LEIBNIZ INSTITUTE OF FRESHWATER ECOLOGY AND INLAND FISHERIES   (Germany)

^d LAWRENCE LIVERMORE NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BED SHEAR STRESSS; BLUFF BODY; EDDY-RESOLVING SIMULATIONS; FIELD DATA; FLOW CURVATURE; FLUID MOTIONS; INCOMING FLOWS; MEAN FLOW; MEAN FLOW FIELDS; MIXING LAYERS; MOMENTUM RATIO; NUMERICAL MODELING; NUMERICAL MODELS; NUMERICAL SIMULATION; RANS MODELS; RIVER CONFLUENCE; RIVER FLOW; SPALART-ALLMARAS; STREAMWISE VARIATIONS; STREAMWISE VELOCITY; TURBULENCE STRUCTURES; TURBULENT KINETIC ENERGY; VELOCITY RATIO;

ANOXIC SEDIMENTS; CONVERGENCE OF NUMERICAL METHODS; ELECTRON ENERGY LOSS SPECTROSCOPY; FLOW SIMULATION; HYDRODYNAMICS; KINETIC ENERGY; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; MIXING; NAVIER STOKES EQUATIONS; SHEAR STRESS; STRESS CONCENTRATION; TURBULENCE; TWO DIMENSIONAL; WAKES;

RIVERS;

CONFLUENCE; DATA SET; EDDY; FLOW FIELD; FLOW MODELING; HYDRODYNAMICS; KINETIC ENERGY; MIXING; MOMENTUM; NUMERICAL MODEL; SHEAR STRESS; STREAMFLOW; TURBULENT FLOW; VORTICITY;

EID: 79955966393     PISSN: 00431397     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2010WR010018     Document Type: Article

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