Simulating flow over circular spillways by using different turbulence models

Engineering Applications of Computational Fluid Mechanics

Volumn 6, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 100-109

  Rahimzadeh, H ^a   Maghsoodi, R ^b   Sarkardeh, H ^c   Tavakkol, S ^a  

^a AMIRKABIR UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Iran)

^b ISLAMIC AZAD UNIVERSITY   (Iran)

^c Water Research Institute (WRI)   (Iran)

Author keywords

Circular spillway; Fluent; Numerical simulation; Turbulence models; VOF

Indexed keywords

EID: 84858658742     PISSN: 19942060     EISSN: 1997003X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/19942060.2012.11015406     Document Type: Article

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