Improvement of fish passage in culverts using CFD

Ecological Engineering

Volumn 47, Issue , 2012, Pages 1-8

  Feurich, Robert ^a   Boubée, Jacques ^b   Olsen, Nils Reidar B ^a  

^a NORWEGIAN UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Norway)

^b NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF WATER AND ATMOSPHERIC RESEARCH   (New Zealand)

Author keywords

Baffle; Common Jollytail; Culvert retrofitting; Diadromy; Fish passage; Galaxias maculatus; Inanga; Paye

Indexed keywords

BAFFLE; COMMON JOLLYTAIL; DIADROMY; FISH PASSAGE; GALAXIAS MACULATUS; INANGA; PAYE;

COMPUTATIONAL FLUID DYNAMICS; FISHWAYS;

CULVERTS;

COMPUTATIONAL FLUID DYNAMICS; CULVERT; DIADROMY; FISH; FLOW VELOCITY; GEOMETRY; MIGRATION ROUTE; WATER DEPTH;

GALAXIAS MACULATUS;

EID: 84864042737     PISSN: 09258574     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ecoleng.2012.06.013     Document Type: Article

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