Incipient sediment transport for non-cohesive landforms by the discrete element method (DEM)

Applied Mathematical Modelling

Volumn 38, Issue 4, 2014, Pages 1326-1337

  Bravo, R ^a   Ortiz, P ^a   Perez Aparicio J L ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GRANADA   (Spain)

^b UNIVERSITAT POLITÈCNICA DE VALÈNCIA   (Spain)

Author keywords

Contact problems; Discrete element method; Incipient sediment transport

Indexed keywords

BED MORPHOLOGY; BOUNDARY SHEAR STRESS; CONTACT PROBLEM; DRAG AND LIFT FORCES; FINITE ELEMENT APPROXIMATIONS; INITIATION OF MOTION; NUMERICAL EXPERIMENTS; SINGLE GRAINS;

EXPERIMENTS; FRICTION; LANDFORMS; NUMERICAL METHODS; REYNOLDS NUMBER; SEDIMENT TRANSPORT; SEDIMENTATION; SHEAR STRESS;

FINITE DIFFERENCE METHOD;

EID: 84893747559     PISSN: 0307904X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.apm.2013.08.010     Document Type: Article

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