Experimental and numerical investigation of the flow field in the gradual transition of rectangular to trapezoidal open channels

Engineering Applications of Computational Fluid Mechanics

Volumn 10, Issue 1, 2016, Pages 272-282

  Asnaashari, Adel ^a   Akhtari, Ali Akbar ^a   Dehghani, Amir Ahmad ^b   Bonakdari, Hossein ^a  

^a RAZI UNIVERSITY   (Iran)

^b GORGAN UNIVERSITY OF AGRICULTURAL SCIENCES AND NATURAL RESOURCES   (Iran)

Author keywords

Coefficient of energy head loss; Efficiency; Expansive transitions; Experimental investigation; Flow pattern; Reynolds stress model; Turbulence

Indexed keywords

EID: 85010987785     PISSN: 19942060     EISSN: 1997003X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/19942060.2016.1149102     Document Type: Article

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