From the blade scale to the reach scale: A characterization of aquatic vegetative drag

Advances in Water Resources

Volumn 51, Issue , 2013, Pages 305-316

  Luhar, Mitul ^a   Nepf, Heidi M ^a  

^a Massachusetts Institute of Technology Cambridge   (United States)

Author keywords

Blockage factor; Manning roughness; Reconfiguration; Submerged vegetation; Vegetative drag

Indexed keywords

AQUATIC VEGETATION; BLOCKAGE FACTOR; CHANNEL RESISTANCE; COMPLEX CHANNELS; CONSTANT FRICTION FACTOR; DIFFERENT SCALE; FIELD MEASUREMENT; FLOW SPEED; HYDRAULIC RESISTANCES; ITERATIVE PROCEDURES; MOMENTUM BALANCES; PHYSICALLY BASED MODELS; PLANT HEIGHT; PLANT MATERIAL; RECONFIGURATION; SIMPLE ITERATION; SPECIFIC DISTRIBUTION; SUBMERGED VEGETATION; TWO LAYER MODEL; VEGETATION DISTRIBUTION; VEGETATION HEIGHT; VEGETATION PATCHES;

DRAG; STREAM FLOW;

VEGETATION;

AQUATIC ENVIRONMENT; CHANNEL FLOW; COMPLEXITY; FIELD METHOD; MOMENTUM TRANSFER; NUMERICAL MODEL; SUBMERGED VEGETATION;

EID: 84872947788     PISSN: 03091708     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.advwatres.2012.02.002     Document Type: Article

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