Effects of Vegetation Stems on Hydraulics of Overland Flow Under Varying Water Discharges

Land Degradation and Development

Volumn 27, Issue 3, 2016, Pages 748-757

  Zhao, Chunhong ^a,b   Gao, Jian'en ^a,c   Huang, Yuefei ^b   Wang, Guangqian ^b   Zhang, Mengjie ^a  

^a NORTHWEST A F UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b TSINGHUA UNIVERSITY   (China)

^c INSTITUTE OF SOIL AND WATER CONSERVATION   (China)

Author keywords

Flow regime; Flow velocity; Hydraulic resistance; Overland flow; Vegetation stem

Indexed keywords

ENERGY UTILIZATION; FLOW OF FLUIDS; FLOW OF WATER; FLOW VELOCITY; FRICTION; FROUDE NUMBER; HYDRAULICS; REYNOLDS NUMBER; SOIL CONSERVATION; STREAM FLOW; VEGETATION; VELOCITY;

CONTROLLED CONDITIONS; FLOW REGIMES; FRICTION COEFFICIENTS; HYDRAULIC RESISTANCES; LONGITUDINAL SECTION; OVERLAND FLOW; SOIL EROSION CONTROLS; VEGETATION RESISTANCE;

RUNOFF;

DISCHARGE; FLOW VELOCITY; FROUDE NUMBER; HYDRAULICS; OVERLAND FLOW; REYNOLDS NUMBER; VEGETATION;

EID: 84941662831     PISSN: 10853278     EISSN: 1099145X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/ldr.2423     Document Type: Article

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