Incipient velocity for partially submerged vehicles in floodwaters

Journal of Hydraulic Research

Volumn 49, Issue 6, 2011, Pages 709-717

  Shu, Caiwen ^a   Xia, Junqiang ^a,b   Falconer, Roger A ^b   Lin, Binliang ^b,c  

^a WUHAN UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b CARDIFF UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^c TSINGHUA UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Flooded vehicles; incipient velocity; model experiment; scale ratio; similarity principle; urban flooding

Indexed keywords

INCIPIENT VELOCITY; MODEL EXPERIMENT; SCALE RATIO; SIMILARITY PRINCIPLE; URBAN FLOODING;

DATA VISUALIZATION; EXPERIMENTS; FLOODS; STABILITY CRITERIA; VELOCITY;

VEHICLES;

AUTOMOBILE; DATA SET; EXPERIMENTAL STUDY; FLASH FLOOD; FLOODING; HAZARD ASSESSMENT; MECHANICS; NUMERICAL MODEL; PARKING; PREDICTION; URBAN AREA; WATER DEPTH;

EID: 84857252597     PISSN: 00221686     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/00221686.2011.616318     Document Type: Article

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