Tracing of shallow water flows through buoyant fluorescent particles

Flow Measurement and Instrumentation

Volumn 26, Issue , 2012, Pages 93-101

  Tauro, Flavia ^a,b   Pagano, Christopher ^a   Porfiri, Maurizio ^a   Grimaldi, Salvatore ^a,b,c  

^a POLYTECHNIC UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b SAPIENZA UNIVERSITY OF ROME   (Italy)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TUSCIA   (Italy)

Author keywords

Fluorescent particle; Image analysis; Particle image velocimetry; Particle tracking; Shallow water

Indexed keywords

AUTOMATIC DETECTION; FLUORESCENT PARTICLE; HILLSLOPES; IN-FIELD; OVERLAND FLOW; PARAMETRIC STUDY; PARTICLE IMAGE VELOCIMETRIES; PARTICLE IMAGE VELOCIMETRY MEASUREMENT; PARTICLE RESPONSE; PARTICLE TRACKING; PARTICLE VELOCITIES; REAL TIME TRACKING; SHALLOW WATER FLOW; SHALLOW WATERS; WATER DEPTH; WATER FLOWS;

BUOYANCY; FLOW OF WATER; FLOW VELOCITY; FLOW VISUALIZATION; HYDRAULICS; IMAGE ANALYSIS; VELOCIMETERS; VELOCITY MEASUREMENT;

FLUORESCENCE;

EID: 84861850003     PISSN: 09555986     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.flowmeasinst.2012.03.007     Document Type: Article

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