Flow adjustment at the leading edge of a submerged aquatic canopy

Water Resources Research

Volumn 49, Issue 9, 2013, Pages 5537-5551

  Chen, Zhengbing ^a   Jiang, Chunbo ^a   Nepf, Heidi ^b  

^a TSINGHUA UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b Massachusetts Institute of Technology Cambridge   (United States)

Author keywords

adjustment length; canopy flow; mixing layer; turbulence

Indexed keywords

BOUNDARY LAYER FLOW; BOUNDARY LAYERS; CIRCULAR CYLINDERS; DRAG; MIXING; TURBULENCE; VELOCITY; VELOCITY MEASUREMENT;

ACOUSTIC DOPPLER VELOCIMETRY; ADJUSTMENT LENGTH; CANOPY FLOW; HIGH PRESSURE REGIONS; MEASUREMENTS OF; MIXING LAYERS; PARTICLE IMAGE VELOCIMETRIES; SUBMERGED VEGETATION;

OPEN CHANNEL FLOW;

CANOPY; DRAG COEFFICIENT; FLOW AROUND OBJECT; FLOW FIELD; FLOW PATTERN; HIGH PRESSURE; MIXED LAYER; OPEN CHANNEL FLOW; SUBMERGED VEGETATION; TURBULENCE;

EID: 84883563216     PISSN: 00431397     EISSN: 19447973     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/wrcr.20403     Document Type: Article

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