Flow structure over bed irregularities in a straight cohesive open channel

Journal of Hydraulic Engineering

Volumn 137, Issue 11, 2011, Pages 1335-1346

  Vachtman, Dina ^a,b   Laronne, Jonathan B ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MANCHESTER   (United Kingdom)

^b BEN GURION UNIVERSITY OF THE NEGEV   (Israel)

^c UNIV GRENOBLE ALPES   (France)

Author keywords

Bedform topography; Cohesive bed; Secondary flow; Stream flow channel bed interactions; Velocity distribution

Indexed keywords

3D FLOW FIELD; BED FORMS; BED MORPHOLOGY; BED TOPOGRAPHY; CHANNEL BED; COHESIVE BED; CROSSSECTIONAL GEOMETRY; FLOW MECHANISMS; FLOW REVERSALS; HIGH RESOLUTION; IN-SITU; MEAN VELOCITIES; MICRO TOPOGRAPHY; OPEN CHANNELS; SECONDARY CELLS; SECONDARY CIRCULATION; STRAIGHT CHANNEL; TEMPORAL FLUCTUATION; THREE-DIMENSIONAL (3D); TURBULENT INTENSITIES; VELOCITY COMPONENTS; VERTICAL FLOWS; VERTICAL FLUCTUATIONS;

CELLS; FLOW FIELDS; FLOW STRUCTURE; SECONDARY FLOW; STREAM FLOW; THREE DIMENSIONAL; TOPOGRAPHY; VELOCITY;

VELOCITY DISTRIBUTION;

CLASSIFICATION; CROSS SECTION; FLOW STRUCTURE; GEOMETRY; OPEN CHANNEL FLOW; PERTURBATION; STREAMFLOW; THREE-DIMENSIONAL MODELING; TROUGH;

EID: 83755228724     PISSN: 07339429     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1061/(ASCE)HY.1943-7900.0000447     Document Type: Article

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