Ripple morphology under oscillatory flow: 2. Experiments

Journal of Geophysical Research: Oceans

Volumn 114, Issue 12, 2009, Pages

  Pedocchi, F ^b   Garcia M H ^a  

^a University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign   (United States)

^b UNIVERSIDAD DE LA REPÚBLICA   (Uruguay)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTATIONAL FLUID DYNAMICS; PLANFORMS; REYNOLDS NUMBER; SEDIMENTOLOGY; SILICA; SILICA SAND;

ABRUPT CHANGE; BED FORMS; EXPERIMENTAL DATA; FINE SAND; FLOW CONDITION; LABORATORY EXPERIMENTS; ORBITAL VELOCITIES; OSCILLATORY FLOWS; UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS;

EXPERIMENTS;

EXPERIMENTAL STUDY; MORPHODYNAMICS; OSCILLATING FLOW; PARTICLE SIZE; REYNOLDS NUMBER; RIPPLE; SAND;

EID: 85066645717     PISSN: None     EISSN: 21699291     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2009JC005356     Document Type: Article

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