Experimental and numerical study on velocity fields and water surface profile in a strongly-curved 90° open channel bend

Engineering Applications of Computational Fluid Mechanics

Volumn 8, Issue 3, 2014, Pages 447-461

  Gholami, Azadeh ^a   Akhtari, Ali Akbar ^a   Minatour, Yasser ^a   Bonakdari, Hossein ^a   Javadi, Akbar A ^b  

^a RAZI UNIVERSITY   (Iran)

^b UNIVERSITY OF EXETER   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Experimental model; K (RNG) model; Numerical model; Open channel flow; Strongly curved 90deg; bend; VOF method

Indexed keywords

EID: 84907580570     PISSN: 19942060     EISSN: 1997003X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/19942060.2014.11015528     Document Type: Article

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