Dam-break flow in the presence of obstacle: Experiment and CFD simulation

Engineering Applications of Computational Fluid Mechanics

Volumn 5, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 541-552

  Ozmen Cagatay, Hatice ^a   Kocaman, Selahattin ^b  

^a CUKUROVA UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

^b University of Mustafa   (Turkey)

Author keywords

CFD; Dam break; Digital image processing; k turbulence model; Obstacle; VOF

Indexed keywords

EID: 82955211460     PISSN: 19942060     EISSN: 1997003X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/19942060.2011.11015393     Document Type: Article

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