Hydrodynamics of vegetated channels

This paper highlights some recent trends in vegetation hydrodynamics, focusing on conditions within channels and spanning spatial scales from individual blades, to canopies or vegetation patches, to the channel reach. At the blade scale, the boundary layer formed on the plant surface plays a role in...

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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: Taylor & Francis/International Association for Hydro-Environment Engineering and Research 2013
Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/79045