1st Edition

Shallow Flows Research Presented at the International Symposium on Shallow Flows, Delft, Netherlands, 2003

Edited By Gerhard H. Jirka, Wim S.J. Uijttewaal Copyright 2004
684 Pages
by CRC Press

684 Pages
by CRC Press

This text presents the key findings of the International Symposium held in Delft in 2003, which explored the process of shallow flows. Shallow flows are found in lowland rivers, lakes, estuaries, bays, coastal areas and in density-stratified atmospheres, and may be observed in puddles, as in oceans. They impact on the life and work of a wide variety of readers, who are here provided... Read more

Foreword

Introduction

Shallow jets, wakes and mixing layers

Shallow stratified and rotating flows in ocean and atmosphere

River and channel flows

Transport processes in shallow flows

Numerical modeling and turbulence closure techniques for shallow flows

Author index

Biography

Gerhard H. Jirka (Edited by) , Wim S. J. Uijttewaal (Edited by)