The structure of turbulent flow in an open channel bend of strong curvature with deformed bed: Insight provided by detached eddy simulation

Water Resources Research

Volumn 47, Issue 5, 2011, Pages

  Constantinescu, George ^a   Koken, Mete ^b   Zeng, Jie ^c  

^a University of Iowa   (United States)

^b MIDDLE EAST TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

^c Operation and Data Management Div   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACCURATE PREDICTION; ALLUVIAL CHANNELS; BANK STABILITY; BED SHEAR STRESSS; BOUNDARY SHEAR STRESS; CHANNEL CURVATURE; CHANNEL WIDTHS; CROSS SECTION; DETACHED EDDY SIMULATIONS; EROSION AND SEDIMENTATION; MEAN FLOW; MEAN SHEAR; MOBILE BED; OPEN-CHANNEL BENDS; POINT BAR; RADIUS OF CURVATURE; REYNOLDS STRESS; REYNOLDS-AVERAGED NAVIER-STOKES SIMULATIONS; SECONDARY CURRENTS; SEPARATED SHEAR LAYERS; STREAMWISE VELOCITY;

AMPLIFICATION; EROSION; FLOW SEPARATION; FORECASTING; NAVIER STOKES EQUATIONS; REYNOLDS NUMBER; SEDIMENTATION; SHEAR STRESS; STRESS CONCENTRATION; TRANSIENTS; TURBULENCE; VORTEX FLOW;

SHEAR FLOW;

ACCURACY ASSESSMENT; ALLUVIAL DEPOSIT; AMPLIFICATION; BATHYMETRY; CURVATURE; EDDY; MOMENTUM; NUMERICAL MODEL; OPEN CHANNEL FLOW; REYNOLDS NUMBER; SEDIMENTATION; SHEAR STRESS; THREE-DIMENSIONAL MODELING; TURBULENCE;

EID: 79957523445     PISSN: 00431397     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2010WR010114     Document Type: Article

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