TY - GEN
T1 - Sedimentation in vegetated rivers
AU - García, Marcelo
AU - López, Fabián
PY - 1998
Y1 - 1998
N2 - Dimensional analysis and numerical modeling are combined to obtain a simple expression for estimating the capacity of vegetated open channels to transport suspended sediment under equilibrium conditions. The numerical model consists of a two-equation closure scheme of the k-ε type, with parameters calibrated using laboratory observations in an open channel with simulated vegetation. A simple power-type expression is found to provide a very good collapse of all the experimental data involving the Rouse number, the relative submergence, the particle Reynolds number and the dimensionless plant density as independent variables.
AB - Dimensional analysis and numerical modeling are combined to obtain a simple expression for estimating the capacity of vegetated open channels to transport suspended sediment under equilibrium conditions. The numerical model consists of a two-equation closure scheme of the k-ε type, with parameters calibrated using laboratory observations in an open channel with simulated vegetation. A simple power-type expression is found to provide a very good collapse of all the experimental data involving the Rouse number, the relative submergence, the particle Reynolds number and the dimensionless plant density as independent variables.
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U2 - 10.1061/40382(1998)156
DO - 10.1061/40382(1998)156
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:84904758722
SN - 0784403821
SN - 9780784403822
T3 - Engineering Approaches to Ecosystem Restoration
SP - 937
EP - 942
BT - Engineering Approaches to Ecosystem Restoration
PB - American Society of Civil Engineers
T2 - Wetlands Engineering and River Restoration Conference 1998
Y2 - 22 March 1998 through 27 March 1998
ER -