Turbulent Sand Suspension over Dunes

Fluvial Sedimentology VI

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages 1-13

  Kostaschuk, R ^a   Villard, P ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GUELPH   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF AUCKLAND   (New Zealand)

Author keywords

Acoustic flow visualization showing dunes generating suspension structures; Acoustic profiler providing instantaneous 'snapshots' of strongly intermittent suspension events; Dunes in Fraser Estuary; Flume studies large, turbulent, coherent flow structures generated over dunes playing important role; Fluvial sedimentology; Kriging estimates pointing evenly spaced grid; Sediment transport and bedforms; Turbulence fundamental characteristic of alluvial flows linked to geomorphological processes; Turbulent sand suspension over dunes

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTIC IMAGING; FLOW STRUCTURE; SAND; SEDIMENT TRANSPORT; SUSPENSIONS (FLUIDS); TURBULENCE; VELOCITY;

BEDFORMS; FLUME STUDIES - LARGE, TURBULENT, COHERENT FLOW STRUCTURES GENERATED OVER DUNES PLAYING IMPORTANT ROLE; FUNDAMENTAL CHARACTERISTICS; KRIGING; SUSPENSION STRUCTURE; TURBULENT SAND SUSPENSION OVER DUNES;

SUSPENDED SEDIMENTS;

EID: 84946723835     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1002/9781444304213.ch1     Document Type: Chapter

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