Effects of a fully submerged boulder within a boulder array on the mean and turbulent flow fields: Implications to bedload transport

Acta Geophysica

Volumn 60, Issue 6, 2012, Pages 1502-1546

  Papanicolaou, Athanasios N ^a   Kramer, Casey M ^b   Tsakiris, Achilleas G ^a   Stoesser, Thorsten ^c   Bomminayuni, Sandeep ^c   Chen, Zhuo ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF IOWA   (United States)

^b WASHINGTON STATE DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION   (United States)

^c Georgia Institute of Technology   (United States)

Author keywords

boulder array; friction velocity; large eddy simulation (LES); turbulent structures; velocity profile

Indexed keywords

BED SHEAR STRESSS; BED-LOAD TRANSPORT; BOULDER ARRAY; BOUNDARY CHARACTERISTICS; FLOW SHEAR; FRICTION VELOCITY; MEAN FLOW; SEDIMENT TRANSPORT RATE; SPATIAL VARIABILITY; TURBULENT STRUCTURES; VELOCITY DEFECTS; VELOCITY PROFILES;

SEDIMENT TRANSPORT; TURBULENT FLOW;

SHEAR FLOW;

BEDLOAD; BOTTOM STRESS; BOULDER; ENTRAINMENT; EXPERIMENTAL STUDY; FLOW FIELD; LARGE EDDY SIMULATION; ROUGHNESS; SEDIMENT TRANSPORT; SHEAR STRESS; SPATIAL VARIATION; TURBULENT FLOW; VELOCITY PROFILE;

EID: 84868475780     PISSN: 18956572     EISSN: 18957455     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2478/s11600-012-0044-6     Document Type: Article

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