Three-dimensional computations of water-air flow in a bottom spillway during gate opening

Engineering Applications of Computational Fluid Mechanics

Volumn 8, Issue 1, 2014, Pages 104-115

  Liu, Ting ^a   Yang, James ^a,b  

^a ROYAL INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Sweden)

^b RINGHALS AB   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Air entrainment; Bottom spillway; CFD; Moving gate; Ttwo phase flow

Indexed keywords

EID: 84896998070     PISSN: 19942060     EISSN: 1997003X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/19942060.2014.11015501     Document Type: Article

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