Drag, turbulence, and diffusion in flow through emergent vegetation

Aquatic plants convert mean kinetic energy into turbulent kinetic energy at the scale of the plant stems and branches. This energy transfer, linked to wake generation, affects vegetative drag and turbulence intensity. Drawing on this physical link, a model is developed to describe the drag, turbulen...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Nepf, Heidi
Other Authors: Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering
Format: Article
Language:en_US
Published: American Geophysical Union 2012
Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/68641

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