Hydraulic and thermal effects of in-stream structure-induced hyporheic exchange across a range of hydraulic conductivities

Water Resources Research

Volumn 50, Issue 6, 2014, Pages 4643-4661

  Menichino, Garrett T ^a   Hester, Erich T ^a  

^a Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University   (United States)

Author keywords

computational fluid dynamics; groundwater; heat flux; non Darcy; permeability; surface water

Indexed keywords

ADVECTION; GROUNDWATER; HEAT FLUX; HYDRAULIC CONDUCTIVITY; HYDRAULIC STRUCTURES; MECHANICAL PERMEABILITY; STREAM FLOW; SURFACE WATERS; WEIRS;

COMPUTATIONAL FLUID DYNAMICS MODELING; GROUNDWATER HYDRAULICS; HYPORHEIC EXCHANGE; NON-DARCY; SPATIAL EXPANSION; SPATIAL VARIABILITY; STREAM ECOSYSTEMS; SURFACE WATER AND GROUNDWATERS;

COMPUTATIONAL FLUID DYNAMICS;

EID: 84901727195     PISSN: 00431397     EISSN: 19447973     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/2013WR014758     Document Type: Article

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