Flow and turbulence structure around a spur dike in a channel with a large scour hole

Water Resources Research

Volumn 47, Issue 12, 2011, Pages

  Koken, Mete ^a,b   Constantinescu, George ^a  

^a University of Iowa   (United States)

^b MIDDLE EAST TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BLUFF BODY; DETACHED EDDY SIMULATIONS; FLAT SURFACES; HORIZONTAL VORTICITY; HORSESHOE VORTICES; NECKLACE VORTICES; SCALE EFFECTS; SCOUR HOLES; SCOUR PROCESS; SEPARATED SHEAR LAYERS; SPUR DIKE; STRAIGHT CHANNEL; SYSTEM CHANGE; TURBULENCE STRUCTURES;

EXPERIMENTS; LEVEES; REYNOLDS NUMBER; RIVERS; SCOUR; TURBULENCE; VORTEX FLOW;

SHEAR FLOW;

BATHYMETRY; CHANNEL FLOW; DIKE; EDDY; NUMERICAL MODEL; REYNOLDS NUMBER; SHEAR STRESS; TURBULENCE; VORTEX;

EID: 84055191580     PISSN: 00431397     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2011WR010710     Document Type: Article

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