Topographic forcing of flow partition and flow structures at river bifurcations

Earth Surface Processes and Landforms

Volumn 37, Issue 6, 2012, Pages 666-679

  Miori, Stefano ^a   Hardy, Richard J ^b   Lane, S N ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TRENTO   (Italy)

^b DURHAM UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF LAUSANNE   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Bedforms; Bifurcations; Reynolds averaged Navier Stokes model

Indexed keywords

BEDFORMS; BRAIDED RIVER; COUNTER ROTATING; DEPTH SCALE; DOWNSTREAM CHANNELS; FLOW DYNAMICS; FLUME EXPERIMENT; FREE SURFACES; HYDRODYNAMIC CONDITIONS; HYDRODYNAMIC MODEL; NUMERICAL PREDICTIONS; PRESSURE DIFFERENCES; REYNOLDS-AVERAGED NAVIER-STOKES; RIVER BIFURCATION; SAND-BED RIVER; SECONDARY CIRCULATION; TOPOGRAPHIC FORCING; UPSTREAM CHANNEL; WATER DISTRIBUTIONS;

BIFURCATION (MATHEMATICS); FLUID DYNAMICS; LIGHT POLARIZATION; TURBULENCE MODELS; WATER SUPPLY SYSTEMS;

RIVERS;

BEDFORM; BIFURCATION; FLOW STRUCTURE; FLUVIAL GEOMORPHOLOGY; NAVIER-STOKES EQUATIONS; NUMERICAL MODEL; REYNOLDS NUMBER; RIVER FLOW; TOPOGRAPHIC EFFECT;

EID: 84859851271     PISSN: 01979337     EISSN: 10969837     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/esp.3204     Document Type: Article

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