The influence of migrating bed forms on the velocity-intermittency structure of turbulent flow over a gravel bed

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 40, Issue 7, 2013, Pages 1351-1355

  Keylock, Christopher J ^a   Singh, Arvind ^b   Foufoula Georgiou, Efi ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SHEFFIELD   (United Kingdom)

^b University of Minnesota   (United States)

Author keywords

Bedforms; Closure schemes; Intermittency; Turbulence

Indexed keywords

BEDFORMS; CLOSURE SCHEMES; GEOPHYSICAL TURBULENCE; HIGH REYNOLDS NUMBER; INTERMITTENCY; SHORTER WAVELENGTH; TURBULENCE CLOSURES; TURBULENT INTERMITTENCY;

ENERGY TRANSFER; GEOPHYSICS; GRAVEL; NAVIER STOKES EQUATIONS; STRUCTURAL GEOLOGY; TURBULENCE; TURBULENT FLOW;

VELOCITY;

BEDFORM; EDDY; ENERGY FLUX; MOISTURE FLUX; NAVIER-STOKES EQUATIONS; NUMERICAL MODEL; TURBULENCE; TURBULENT FLOW; VELOCITY PROFILE;

EID: 84876910052     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: 19448007     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/grl.50337     Document Type: Article

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