Parameterisation, Validation and Uncertainty Analysis of CFD Models of Fluvial and Flood Hydraulics in the Natural Environment

Computational Fluid Dynamics: Applications in Environmental Hydraulics

Volumn , Issue , 2005, Pages 193-213

  Horritt, M S ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BRISTOL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Aerial stereophotogrammetry; Airborne LiDAR systems; Calibration; Computational fluid dynamics; Global Positioning System (GPS); Model parameterisation; Monte Carlo method; Remote sensing; Stochastic Differential Equations (SDEs); Sub grid scale variability

Indexed keywords

EID: 84889368416     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1002/0470015195.ch9     Document Type: Chapter

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