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      Environmental Fluid Mechanics

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      Environmental Fluid Mechanics book

      Memorial Volume in honour of Prof. Gerhard H. Jirka

      Environmental Fluid Mechanics

      DOI link for Environmental Fluid Mechanics

      Environmental Fluid Mechanics book

      Memorial Volume in honour of Prof. Gerhard H. Jirka
      Edited ByWolfgang Rodi, Markus Uhlmann
      Edition 1st Edition
      First Published 2012
      eBook Published 25 May 2012
      Pub. Location London
      Imprint CRC Press
      DOI https://doi.org/10.1201/b12283
      Pages 456
      eBook ISBN 9780429212802
      Subjects Earth Sciences, Engineering & Technology, Mathematics & Statistics
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      Rodi, W., & Uhlmann, M. (Eds.). (2012). Environmental Fluid Mechanics: Memorial Volume in honour of Prof. Gerhard H. Jirka (1st ed.). CRC Press. https://doi.org/10.1201/b12283

      ABSTRACT

      This book contains the written versions of invited lectures presented at the Gerhard H. Jirka Memorial Colloquium on Environmental Fluid Mechanics, held June 3-4, 2011, in Karlsruhe, Germany. Professor Jirka was widely known for his outstanding work in Environmental Fluid Mechanics, and 23 eminent world-leading experts in this field contributed to

      TABLE OF CONTENTS

      chapter 1|36 pages

      Mixing and transport processes in environmental fluid systems: Gerhard Jirka’s scientific achievements

      ByT. Bleninger, H. Herlina, V. Weitbrecht, S. Socolofsky

      chapter 2|14 pages

      Horizontal mixing in shallow flows

      ByW.S.J. Uijttewaal

      chapter 3|22 pages

      Onset and development of instabilities in shallow shear flows

      ByM.S. Ghidaoui, M.Y. Lam and J.H. Liang

      chapter 4|12 pages

      Shallow flows with bottom topography

      ByG.J.F. van Heijst, L.P.J. Kamp and R. Theunissen

      chapter 5|22 pages

      Characteristic scales and consequences of large-scale horizontal coherent structures in shallow open-channel flows

      ByA.M. Ferreira da Silva, H. Ahmari and A. Kanani

      chapter 6|16 pages

      Waves and currents: Hawking radiation in the hydraulics laboratory?

      ByG.A. Lawrence, S. Weinfurtner, E.W. Tedford, M.C.J. Penrice and W.G. Unruh

      chapter 7|30 pages

      Numerical simulation of turbulent flow and sediment transport processes in arbitrarily complex waterways

      ByS. Kang, A. Khosronejad, F. Sotiropoulos

      chapter 8|22 pages

      Morphodynamic equilibrium of tidal channels

      ByG. Seminara, M. Bolla Pittaluga, N. Tambroni

      chapter 9|20 pages

      Flow structure and sustainability of pools in gravel-bed rivers

      ByS.E. Parkinson, P. Goodwin and D. Caamaño

      chapter 10|22 pages

      Drag forces and flow resistance of flexible riparian vegetation

      ByA. Dittrich, J. Aberle, T. Schoneboom

      chapter 11|22 pages

      Flow-biota interactions in aquatic systems: Scales, mechanisms, and challenges

      ByV. Nikora, S. Cameron, I. Albayrak, O. Miler, N. Nikora, F. Siniscalchi, M. Stewart and M. O’Hare

      chapter 12|10 pages

      Interaction of flows and particles at sub-micrometer scales

      ByD. Chen, H. Huang

      chapter 13|22 pages

      Environmental aspects of wastewater hydraulics

      ByW.H. Hager

      chapter 14|16 pages

      Diffusive-type of double diffusion in lakes-a review

      ByA. Wüest, T. Sommer, M. Schmid and J.R. Carpenter

      chapter 15|14 pages

      Multiple jet interaction in stagnant shallow water

      ByA.C.H. Lai and J.H.W. Lee

      chapter 16|16 pages

      Evolution of turbulent jets in low-aspect ratio containers

      ByS.I. Voropayev, C. Nath and H.J.S. Fernando

      chapter 17|16 pages

      Modelling internal solitary waves in shallow stratified fluids

      ByP.A. Davies and M. Carr

      chapter 18|14 pages

      Optical methods in the laboratory: An application to density currents over bedforms

      ByJ. Ezequiel Martin, T. Sun and M.H. García

      chapter 19|8 pages

      Extinction of near-bed turbulence due to self-stratification in turbidity currents: The dependence on shear Reynolds number

      ByM.I. Cantero, S. Balachandar, A. Cantelli and G. Parker

      chapter 20|16 pages

      Revisiting gravity currents and free shear flows

      ByJ. Bühler, M. Princevac

      chapter 21|18 pages

      On the effect of drag on the propagation of compositional gravity currents

      ByG. Constantinescu

      chapter 22|16 pages

      Gas transfer at water surfaces

      ByB. Jähne

      chapter 23|12 pages

      Mass transfer from bubble swarms

      ByJ.S. Gulliver

      chapter 24|20 pages

      Modelling bacteria and trace metal fluxes in estuarine basins

      ByR.A. Falconer, B. Lin, W.B. Rauen, C.M. Stapleton and D. Kay
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