Resistance and reconfiguration of natural flexible submerged vegetation in hydrodynamic river modelling

Environmental Fluid Mechanics

Volumn 16, Issue 1, 2016, Pages 245-265

  Verschoren, Veerle ^a   Meire, Dieter ^b,c   Schoelynck, Jonas ^a   Buis, Kerst ^a   Bal, Kris D ^a,d   Troch, Peter ^b   Meire, Patrick ^a   Temmerman, Stijn ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ANTWERP   (Belgium)

^b GHENT UNIVERSITY   (Belgium)

^c FLANDERS HYDRAULICS RESEARCH   (Belgium)

^d UNIVERSITY OF LIMPOPO   (South Africa)

Author keywords

2D modelling; Macrophytes; Open channel flow; Roughness; Stream ecosystem

Indexed keywords

FLOW MODELING; HYDRODYNAMICS; MACROPHYTE; NUMERICAL MODEL; OPEN CHANNEL FLOW; RIVER DISCHARGE; RIVER FLOW; SPATIAL VARIATION; STREAMFLOW; STREAMWATER; SUBMERGED VEGETATION; TWO-DIMENSIONAL MODELING;

EID: 84954392884     PISSN: 15677419     EISSN: 15731510     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10652-015-9432-1     Document Type: Article

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