Lateral circulation in a stratified open channel on a 120 bend

Water Resources Research

Volumn 48, Issue 12, 2012, Pages

  Williamson, N ^a   Norris, S E ^b   Armfield, S W ^a   Kirkpatrick, M P ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF AUCKLAND   (New Zealand)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANGULAR LOCATIONS; BAROCLINIC PRESSURE; BULK RICHARDSON NUMBER; CENTRIFUGAL ACCELERATION; CHANNEL DEPTH; COMPLEX DYNAMICS; DENSITY INTERFACE; ISOTHERMAL FLOWS; MIXING LAYERS; OPEN CHANNELS; RELATIVE STRENGTH; RICHARDSON NUMBER; SEDIMENT EROSION; SHEAR ORIENTATION; STRATIFIED FLOWS; VERTICAL VARIATION;

CENTRIFUGATION; ISOTHERMS; MIXED CONVECTION; PRESSURE GRADIENT; REYNOLDS NUMBER;

OPEN CHANNEL FLOW;

BAROCLINIC MOTION; CIRCULATION; FLOW STRUCTURE; HYDROGEOLOGY; ISOTHERM; MIXED LAYER; NUMERICAL MODEL; OPEN CHANNEL FLOW; PRESSURE GRADIENT; REYNOLDS NUMBER; RICHARDSON NUMBER; SEDIMENT TRANSPORT; SHEAR FLOW; STRATIFICATION; TURBULENT FLOW;

EID: 84871390871     PISSN: 00431397     EISSN: 19447973     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2012WR012218     Document Type: Article

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