Measuring shallow water flow velocity with virtual boundary condition signal in the electrolyte tracer method

Journal of Hydrology

Volumn 452-453, Issue , 2012, Pages 172-179

  Shi, Xiaonan ^a,b   Zhang, Fan ^a   Lei, Tingwu ^b,c   Chuo, Ruiyuan ^c   Zhou, Shumei ^b   Yan, Yan ^c  

^a INSTITUTE OF GEOLOGY AND GEOPHYSICS   (China)

^b INSTITUTE OF SOIL AND WATER CONSERVATION   (China)

^c CHINA AGRICULTURAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Electrolyte tracer; Sensitivity analysis; Shallow water flow; Velocity measurement; Virtual boundary condition

Indexed keywords

ACCURATE MEASUREMENT; ACCURATE VELOCITY MEASUREMENT; BOUNDARY MEASUREMENTS; EXPERIMENTAL DATA; INJECTION DURATIONS; MEASURED DATA; MEASUREMENT ACCURACY; MEASUREMENT PRECISION; PORTABLE INSTRUMENT; PULSE MODEL; SHALLOW WATER FLOW; SLOPE GRADIENTS; SOIL EROSION; TRACER METHODS;

BOUNDARY CONDITIONS; ELECTROLYTES; FLOW OF WATER; FLOW VELOCITY; HYDRAULICS; MEASUREMENTS; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; SENSORS; VELOCITY; VELOCITY MEASUREMENT;

FLOW RATE;

BOUNDARY CONDITION; DATA SET; ELECTROKINESIS; EXPERIMENTAL STUDY; FLOW VELOCITY; NUMERICAL MODEL; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; SHALLOW WATER; WATER FLOW;

EID: 84863105833     PISSN: 00221694     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jhydrol.2012.05.046     Document Type: Article

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