Numerical experiments on subaqueous cyclic steps due to turbidity currents

River, Coastal and Estuarine Morphodynamics: RCEM 2005 - Proceedings of the 4th IAHR Symposium on River, Coastal and Estuarine Morphodynamics

Volumn 1, Issue , 2006, Pages 535-541

  Kostic, S ^a   Parker, G ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA   (United States)

^b ILLINOIS STATE GEOLOGICAL SURVEY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BEDFORMS; BEDROCK CHANNELS; CYCLIC STEPS; ERODIBLE BEDS; INTERNAL HYDRAULIC; LABORATORY EXPERIMENTS; NUMERICAL EXPERIMENTS; NUMERICAL MODELS; SUPERCRITICAL FLOW; TURBIDITY CURRENT;

ESTUARIES; EXPERIMENTS; OCEAN CURRENTS; RIVERS; SEDIMENT TRANSPORT;

OPEN CHANNEL FLOW;

EID: 84857005163     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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