LE of shallow mixing interfaces: A review

Environmental Fluid Mechanics

Volumn 14, Issue 5, 2014, Pages 971-996

  Constantinescu, George ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF IOWA   (United States)

Author keywords

Large eddy simulation; Mixing layer; River confluences; Shallow flows

Indexed keywords

CHANNEL HYDRAULICS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; FLOW FIELD; FLOW VELOCITY; LABORATORY METHOD; LARGE EDDY SIMULATION; NUMERICAL MODEL; OPEN CHANNEL FLOW; SHALLOW WATER; THREE-DIMENSIONAL MODELING; TURBULENCE;

EID: 84907702845     PISSN: 15677419     EISSN: 15731510     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10652-013-9303-6     Document Type: Article

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