The Role of Turbulence on the Entrainment of a Single Sphere and the Effects of Roughness on Fluid-Solid Interaction

Incipient motion criterion in sediment transport is very important, as it defines the flow condition that initiates sediment motion, and is also frequently employed in models to predict the sediment transport at higher flow conditions as well. In turbulent flows, even a reasonably accurate definiti...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Balakrishnan, Mahalingam III
Other Authors: Mechanical Engineering
Format: Others
Published: Virginia Tech 2014
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Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/10919/30732
http://scholar.lib.vt.edu/theses/available/etd-82697-195326/