Environmental fluid mechanics : memorial volume in honour of Prof. Gerhard H. Jirka /: memorial volume in honour of Prof. Gerhard H. Jirka. (©2012)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Editors Wolfgang Rodi & Markus Uhlmann.
• Other Names: Jirka, Gerhard H; Rodi, Wolfgang; Uhlmann, Markus
• Contents: Mixing and transport processes in environmental fluid systems -- Horizontal mixing in shallow flows -- Onset and development of instabilities in shallow shear flows -- Shallow flows with bottom topography -- Characteristic scales and consequences of large-scale horizontal coherent structures in shallow open-channel flows -- Waves and currents -- Numerical simulation of turbulent flow and sediment transport processes in arbitrarily complex waterways -- Morphodynamic equilibrium of tidal channels -- Flow structure and sustainability of pools in gravel-bed rivers -- Drag forces and flow resistance of flexible riparian vegetation -- Flow-biota interactions in aquatic systems -- Interaction of flows and particles at sub-micrometer scales -- Environmental aspects of wastewater hydraulics -- Diffusive-type of double diffusion in lakes-a review -- Multiple jet interaction in stagnant shallow water -- Evolution of turbulent jets in low-aspect ratio containers -- Modelling internal solitary waves in shallow stratified fluids -- Optical methods in the laboratory -- Extinction of near-bed turbulence due to self-stratification in turbidity currents -- Revisiting gravity currents and free shear flows -- On the effect of drag on the propagation of compositional gravity currents -- Gas transfer at water surfaces -- Mass transfer from bubble swarms -- Modelling bacteria and trace metal fluxes in estuarine basins.
• Publisher Details: Leiden : CRC Press/Balkema
• Publication Date: 2012
• Copyright Date: 2012
• Extent: 1 online resource (xiv, 436 pages), illustrations
• Subjects: 620.1/064 620.1064; Fluid dynamics; Streamflow; Hydrogeology; Earth -- Research; Jirka, Gerhard H; Engineering; Science; Physics; TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING -- Material Science; Fluid dynamics; Hydrogeology; Research; Streamflow; Earth (Planet) -- Research; Earth (Planet); Electronic books
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9780203803967; 0203803965
• Related ISBNs: 9780415670456; 0415670454
• Notes: Note: Includes bibliographical references and index.; Note: Print version record.
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