River Flow 2012. Proceedings of the International Conference on Fluvial Hydraulics, San José, Costa Rica, 5-7 September 2012 /: Proceedings of the International Conference on Fluvial Hydraulics, San José, Costa Rica, 5-7 September 2012. Vol. 1 : (2012)

• Record Type: Book
• Other Titles: Proceedings of the International Conference on Fluvial Hydraulics, San José, Costa Rica, 5-7 September 2012
• Further Information: Note: Editor, Rafael Murillo Muñoz.
• Other Names: Murillo Muñoz, Rafael; International Conference on Fluvial Hydraulics
• Contents: Front Cover; Table of contents; Preface; Organization; Organizing institutions and sponsor; Acknowledgement; Keynotes; Performance review of Jamuna Bridge River training works 1997-2009; Fluvial influence on estuaries and coastal wetlands; Problems and researches on eco-hydraulics and eco-sedimentation; A. River hydrodynamics; A.1 Turbulent open channel flow & transport of sediments; Numerical investigation of flow structure and shear stress over fixed dunes; Similarities and differences of fluvial shallow mixing layers; 3D flow structure in a sand bed stream with riparian vegetation. Exchanges between river flow and its side basinsComputations of unsteady river flows around a bridge pier by shallow multi-level grid model; Influence of bluff body wake structure on fish preferred holding locations; Turbulence anisotropy in a compound meandering channel; Visualizing the variation in normality of a turbulent velocity field; Mean flow field around a boulder within a fully submerged boulder array; Higher-order moments of velocity fluctuations in an open channel flow with mobile bedforms; Computations on meandering compound channel flows using 3D URANS model. Bursting and flow kinematics in natural streamsA. 2 Flow resistance & bed roughness; Numerical modelling of rapidly varying flow over weir-like obstacles during high water stages; Shock wave/boundary layer interaction in hydraulic jumps in very large channels; 2-D numerical modeling of water flow over a gravel bar; Intense bed-load friction and transport: The effect of concentration; Integration of a dune roughness model with a large-scale flow model; Modelling the influence of macrophyte patches on river flow; Turbulence characteristics of rough open channel flow subjected to bed injection. Simulation of macro resistance in steep mountain streamBed form evolution under varying discharges, flume versus field; A.3 Overbank flows & vegetation; An experimental study of drag forces acting on flexible plants; Numerical modelling of overbank flood routing; Influence of vegetation on compound-channel turbulent field; Flow in skewed compound channels with rough floodplains; LES of flow past a porous cylinder; Vegetated flows: Drag force and velocity profiles for foliated plant stands; Turbulent flows in a compound open channel with emergent vegetation. Errors in 2-D modelling using a 0th order turbulence closure for compound channel flowsEnergy dissipation of flows in vegetated patches with spatially varying stem density; Modeling of vegetated rivers for inbank and overbank flows; Unsteady flow in natural compound channel: experiment and simulation; Dynamics of turbulent flow along and behind vegetation patches: Field experiments; Characteristics of local erosion and deposition with a patch of vegetation; Propagation of a gravity current in an aquatic canopy: Insights from Large Eddy Simulations.
• Publisher Details: Boca Raton : CRC Press
• Publication Date: 2012
• Extent: 1 online resource (xxi, 1, 341 pages), illustrations
• Subjects: 551.483; Streamflow -- Congresses; Sediment transport -- Congresses; River sediments -- Congresses; Alluvium -- Congresses; NATURE -- Ecosystems & Habitats -- Rivers; Alluvium; River sediments; Sediment transport; Streamflow; Electronic books; Conference papers and proceedings
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9781466584174; 1466584173
• Notes: Note: Includes bibliographical references.; Note: Online resource; title from pdf information screen (Ebsco, viewed March 19, 2013).
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