Hydraulic modelling of stratified bi-directional flow in a river mouth

Proceedings of the Institution of Civil Engineers: Engineering and Computational Mechanics

Volumn 164, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 207-216

  Laanearu, Janek ^a   Vassiljev, Anatoli ^a   Davies, Peter A ^b  

^a TALLINN UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Estonia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF DUNDEE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Coastal engineering; Environment; Hydraulics and hydrodynamics

Indexed keywords

COASTAL ENGINEERING; ENERGY DISSIPATION; HYDRAULIC MODELS; SEA LEVEL;

ANALYTICAL RESULTS; BI-DIRECTIONAL FLOWS; DIFFERENT DENSITIES; ENVIRONMENT; HORIZONTAL CHANNELS; INTERNAL HYDRAULIC; RECTANGULAR CHANNEL; SEA LEVEL CONDITION;

RIVERS;

EID: 84858037147     PISSN: 17550777     EISSN: 17470785     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1680/eacm.2011.164.4.207     Document Type: Article

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