Interactions between flow structure and morphodynamic of bars in a channel expansion/contraction, Loire River, France

Water Resources Research

Volumn 50, Issue 4, 2014, Pages 2850-2873

  Claude, Nicolas ^a   Rodrigues, Stéphane ^a   Bustillo, Vincent ^d   Bréhéret, Jean Gabriel ^a,c   Tassi, Pablo ^b   Jugé, Philippe ^e  

^a UNIVERSITÉ DE TOURS   (France)

^b Universite Paris Est   (France)

^c UNIVERSITÉ PARIS EST   (France)

^d CNRS   (France)

^e CETU ElmisUniversité François Rabelais ^*  (France)

Author keywords

bar; channel contraction; channel expansion; field measurements; flow structure; morphodynamic

Indexed keywords

FLOW STRUCTURE; MEASUREMENTS;

ACOUSTIC DOPPLER PROFILERS; BAR; CHANNEL EXPANSIONS; DOWNSTREAM CHANNELS; FIELD MEASUREMENT; HIGH TEMPORAL RESOLUTION; MORPHODYNAMIC; TRANSVERSE CONFIGURATION;

RIVERS;

BED ROUGHNESS; CHANNEL HYDRAULICS; CHANNEL MORPHOLOGY; DATA SET; FLOW STRUCTURE; MORPHODYNAMICS; RIVER CHANNEL; SHEAR STRESS; TOPOGRAPHIC EFFECT; TURBULENCE;

FRANCE; LOIRE RIVER;

EID: 84897356413     PISSN: 00431397     EISSN: 19447973     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/2013WR015182     Document Type: Article

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