Coherent structure dynamics and sediment erosion mechanisms around an in-stream rectangular cylinder at low and moderate angles of attack

Water Resources Research

Volumn 47, Issue 12, 2011, Pages

  Chang, W Y ^a   Constantinescu, George ^b   Tsai, W F ^a   Lien, H C ^a  

^a NATIONAL CENTER FOR HIGH PERFORMANCE COMPUTING   (Taiwan)

^b UNIVERSITY OF IOWA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACCELERATED FLOWS; ANGLES OF ATTACK; BED FRICTION; COHERENT STRUCTURE; CRITICAL VALUE; ENTRAINMENT FLUX; ERODIBLE BEDS; FLOW OBSTRUCTION; HIGH-ASPECT RATIO; HORSESHOE VORTICES; INSTANTANEOUS FLOW; INSTREAM STRUCTURES; LARGE-SCALE COHERENT STRUCTURES; LOCAL SCOUR; MEAN FLOW; MEAN FLOW FIELDS; NECKLACE VORTICES; NON-CIRCULAR; QUANTITATIVE INFORMATION; RECTANGULAR CYLINDER; SCOUR PROCESS; SCOUR PROTECTION; SEDIMENT EROSION; SEPARATED SHEAR LAYERS; STANDARD DEVIATION; TURBULENCE STRUCTURES; WAKE VORTEX;

AMPLIFICATION; ANGLE OF ATTACK; ANOXIC SEDIMENTS; ASPECT RATIO; CYLINDERS (SHAPES); FLOW FIELDS; FRICTION; REYNOLDS NUMBER; SCOUR; SEDIMENTOLOGY; TRIBOLOGY; VELOCITY; VORTEX FLOW; WAKES;

SHEAR FLOW;

CYLINDER; EDDY COVARIANCE; MATHEMATICAL ANALYSIS; NUMERICAL MODEL; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; REYNOLDS NUMBER; SCOUR; SEDIMENT ANALYSIS; TURBULENCE; VELOCITY; VORTICITY;

EID: 84855361128     PISSN: 00431397     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2011WR010586     Document Type: Article

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