Multifractal characterization of water-worked gravel surfaces

Journal of Hydraulic Research

Volumn 49, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 345-351

  Qin, Jie ^a   Ng, Sai Leung ^a  

^a CHINESE UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG   (Hong Kong)

Author keywords

Armouring process; digital elevation model; gravel surface; multifractal analysis; roughness

Indexed keywords

ARMOUR LAYERS; ARMOURING PROCESS; DIGITAL ELEVATION MODEL; EFFECTIVE GRAIN SIZE; FIELD EXPERIMENT; FLUME EXPERIMENT; GRAVEL SURFACE; GRAVEL SURFACES; HYDROLOGICAL DATA; MULTIFRACTAL ANALYSIS; MULTIFRACTAL CHARACTERIZATION; MULTIFRACTAL SPECTRUM; MULTIFRACTALITY; POWER LAW; POWER SPECTRA ANALYSIS; SCALE-INVARIANT; SECOND ORDERS; STRUCTURE FUNCTIONS;

ARMOR; EXPERIMENTS; FRACTALS; GRAVEL; INVESTMENTS; TWO DIMENSIONAL;

SURFACE ROUGHNESS;

BED ROUGHNESS; DIGITAL ELEVATION MODEL; GRAVEL BED STREAM; HETEROGENEITY; POWER LAW; STREAMFLOW; TWO-DIMENSIONAL FLOW;

EID: 79959446399     PISSN: 00221686     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/00221686.2011.567762     Document Type: Article

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