Flow and Transport in Regions with Aquatic Vegetation

This review describes mean and turbulent flow and mass transport in the presence of aquatic vegetation. Within emergent canopies, the turbulent length scales are set by the stem diameter and spacing, and the mean flow is determined by the distribution of the canopy frontal area. Near sparse submerge...

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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: Annual Reviews 2013
Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/79046