Investigation of temperature dynamics in small and shallow reservoirs, case study: Lake Binaba, Upper East Region of Ghana

Water (Switzerland)

Volumn 8, Issue 3, 2016, Pages

  Abbasi, Ali ^a   Annor, Frank Ohene ^a,b   van de Giesen, Nick ^a  

^a DELFT UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Netherlands)

^b KWAME NKRUMAH UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Ghana)

Author keywords

Heat transfer; OpenFOAM; RANS; Semi arid region; Small water body; Temperature dynamics; Turbulence

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC THERMODYNAMICS; BINS; BOUNDARY CONDITIONS; COMPUTATIONAL FLUID DYNAMICS; DYNAMICS; HEAT TRANSFER; LAKES; MEAN SQUARE ERROR; NAVIER STOKES EQUATIONS; RADIATION EFFECTS; RESERVOIRS (WATER); SURFACE WATERS; TEMPERATURE CONTROL; TURBULENCE; TURBULENCE MODELS; WIND;

OPENFOAM; RANS; SEMI-ARID REGION; TEMPERATURE DYNAMICS; WATERBODIES;

ATMOSPHERIC TEMPERATURE;

AIR TEMPERATURE; COMPUTATIONAL FLUID DYNAMICS; HEAT SOURCE; LACUSTRINE ENVIRONMENT; RESERVOIR; SEMIARID REGION; SHALLOW WATER; TEMPERATURE GRADIENT; TEMPERATURE PROFILE; TEMPORAL DISTRIBUTION; TURBULENCE; WATER RESOURCE;

GHANA; UPPER EAST REGION;

EID: 84964344482     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20734441     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3390/w8030084     Document Type: Article

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