Formula of incipient velocity for flooded vehicles

Natural Hazards

Volumn 58, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 1-14

  Xia, Junqiang ^a,b   Teo, Fang Yenn ^b   Lin, Binliang ^b   Falconer, Roger A ^b  

^a WUHAN UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b CARDIFF UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Flood hazard; Flooded vehicles; Flume experiments; Incipient velocity; Urban flooding; Vehicle instability

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE CHANGE; FLASH FLOOD; FLOODING; GLOBAL WARMING; NATURAL HAZARD;

EID: 79958845139     PISSN: 0921030X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11069-010-9639-x     Document Type: Article

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