A combined Raindrop Aggregate Destruction Test-Settling Tube (RADT-ST) approach to identify the settling velocity of sediment

Hydrology

Volumn 2, Issue 4, 2015, Pages 176-192

  Xiao, Liangang ^a   Hu, Yaxian ^a   Greenwood, Philip ^a   Kuhn, Nikolaus J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BASEL   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Aggregate breakdown; Modelling; Raindrop impact; Settling tube; Settling velocity

Indexed keywords

EID: 84978510658     PISSN: None     EISSN: 23065338     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3390/hydrology2040176     Document Type: Article

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