Coupled 3-D stream flow and hyporheic flow model under varying stream and ambient groundwater flow conditions in a pool-riffle system

Water Resources Research

Volumn 49, Issue 9, 2013, Pages 5834-5850

  Trauth, Nico ^a,b   Schmidt, Christian ^a   Maier, Uli ^a   Vieweg, Michael ^a,b   Fleckenstein, Jan H ^a  

^a HELMHOLTZ CENTRE FOR ENVIRONMENTAL RESEARCH UFZ   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TÜBINGEN   (Germany)

Author keywords

computational fluid dynamics; groundwater surface water exchange; hyporheic exchange; pool riffle; residence times; undular hydraulic jump

Indexed keywords

GROUNDWATER; GROUNDWATER FLOW; HYDRAULIC JUMP; LAKES; NORMAL DISTRIBUTION; RESIDENCE TIME DISTRIBUTION; REYNOLDS NUMBER; RIVERS; STREAM FLOW; WATER DISTRIBUTION SYSTEMS;

GROUNDWATER-SURFACE-WATER EXCHANGES; HYPORHEIC EXCHANGE; POOL-RIFFLE; RESIDENCE TIME; UNDULAR HYDRAULIC JUMPS;

COMPUTATIONAL FLUID DYNAMICS;

COMPUTATIONAL FLUID DYNAMICS; DISCHARGE; FLOW MODELING; GROUNDWATER FLOW; HYPORHEIC ZONE; REYNOLDS NUMBER; SEDIMENT-WATER INTERFACE; SIMULATION; STREAMFLOW;

EID: 84883892271     PISSN: 00431397     EISSN: 19447973     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/wrcr.20442     Document Type: Article

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