The horseshoe vortex system around a circular bridge pier on a flat bed

31st IAHR Congress 2005: Water Engineering for the Future, Choices and Challenges

Volumn , Issue , 2005, Pages 2824-2835

  Kirkil, Gokhan ^a   Constantinescu, George ^a   Ettema, Robert ^a  

^a University of Iowa   (United States)

Author keywords

Bridge pier; Coherent structures; Horseshoe vortex; Large eddy Simulation

Indexed keywords

BRIDGE PIERS; CYLINDERS (SHAPES); KINETIC ENERGY; KINETICS; LARGE EDDY SIMULATION; PIERS; REYNOLDS NUMBER; SCOUR; SHEAR STRESS; TURBULENT FLOW;

DETACHED SHEAR LAYER; ENERGETIC VORTICES; HIGH FREQUENCY HF; HORSESHOE VORTICES; INFLOW BOUNDARY CONDITIONS; SYSTEM STRUCTURES; TURBULENT KINETIC ENERGY; VARIABLE DISTANCES;

VORTEX FLOW;

EID: 84871963551     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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