Sediment transport and shear stress partitioning in a vegetated flow

Water Resources Research

Volumn 51, Issue 4, 2015, Pages 2901-2922

  Le Bouteiller, Caroline ^a,b,c   Venditti, J G ^a  

^a SIMON FRASER UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b Cemagref   (France)

^c UNIV GRENOBLE ALPES   (France)

Author keywords

morphodynamics; sediment transport; shear stress partitioning; skin friction; vegetation

Indexed keywords

FLOW OF WATER; FRICTION; SEDIMENTATION; SEDIMENTS; SHEAR FLOW; SHEAR STRESS; SKIN FRICTION; TRIBOLOGY; VEGETATION;

BED SHEAR STRESSS; BED-LOAD TRANSPORT; MORPHODYNAMIC MODELS; MORPHODYNAMICS; PHYSICAL PROCESS; REASONABLE VALUE; SHEAR STRESS PARTITIONING; VEGETATION DENSITY;

SEDIMENT TRANSPORT;

COASTAL ZONE; MORPHODYNAMICS; PREDICTION; SEDIMENT TRANSPORT; SHEAR STRESS; WATER FLOW; WATERWAY TRANSPORT;

EID: 85027935495     PISSN: 00431397     EISSN: 19447973     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/2014WR015825     Document Type: Article

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