UID:
almahu_9949865616802882
Format:
1 online resource (289 pages)
ISBN:
9781351796262
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1351796267
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9781351796255
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9781351796248
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1351796240
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9781315206189
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1315206188
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1351796259
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9781351796255
Series Statement:
IAHR Monographs
Content:
Annotation
Note:
Cover; Half Title; Title Page; Copyright Page; Table of Contents; Preface to the 2nd edition; Preface to the 1st edition; Scope of the monograph; List of symbols; 1 Fundamentals; 1.1 Sediment transport; 1.2 Turbulent flow; 1.2.1 General; 1.2.2 Vertical distributions of shear stress and flow velocity; 1.2.3 Average flow velocity; 1.2.4 Resistance equation; 1.3 Two-dimensional two-phase motion; 1.4 Bed-load rate; Bagnold's formula; 1.5 Vector forms of the bed-load rate; 1.6 Suspended-load rate; 1.7 Sediment transport continuity equation; 1.8 Additional remarks; Problems; References.
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2 Bed forms2.1 General; 2.2 Origin of bed forms; 2.2.1 Dunes and bars; 2.2.2 Ripples; 2.2.3 Clarification of "uniform flows''; 2.2.4 Special aspects; 2.2.5 Additional remarks: the ongoing debate on the origin of bed forms; 2.3 Geometry and existence regions of dunes and ripples; 2.3.1 Introductory considerations; 2.3.2 Geometric characteristics of dunes; 2.3.3 Geometric characteristics of ripples; 2.3.4 Existence regions of dunes and ripples; 2.4 Geometry and existence regions of bars; 2.4.1 Existence regions of alternate and multiple bars; 2.4.2 Geometric characteristics of alternate bars.
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2.5 Final remarksReferences; 3 Flow past undulated beds; 3.1 Flow resistance factor; 3.1.1 General; 3.1.2 Resistance factor formula; 3.1.3 Other methods for determination of c; 3.1.4 Flow rate as one of the parameters determining c; 3.1.5 Interrelation between Fr and c; 3.2 Sediment transport rate of flow past undulated bed; 3.3 Mechanical structure of flow over dunes; Problems; References; 4 Regime channels and their computation; 4.1 Introduction; 4.1.1 Empirical regime formulae; 4.1.2 Rational methods based on extremal hypotheses; 4.2 Regime-channel defining parameters.
Additional Edition:
Print version: Da Silva, Ana Maria Ferreira. Fluvial Processes : 2nd Edition. London : CRC Press, ©2017 ISBN 9781138001381
Language:
English
URL:
https://www.taylorfrancis.com/books/9781315206189