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Nov 1, 2000

Characteristics of Skimming Flow over Stepped Spillways

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Volume 126, Issue 11
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PhD Student, Lab. of Hydraulics, Hydrol. and Glaciology (VAW), Fed. Inst. of Technol. (ETH), CH-8092 Zurich, Switzerland.
Sr. Lect. in Fluid Mech., River and Coast. Hydr. and Envir. Engrg., Dept. of Civ. Engrg., Univ. of Queensland, Brisbane QLD 4072, Australia.
Lect., Technical Univ. of Lisbon, IST, Dept. of Civ. Engrg., Lisbon 1096, Portugal.
Prof., Dept. of Civ. Engrg., Nihon Univ., Coll. of Sci. and Tech., Kanda Surugadai, 1-8 Chiyoda-ku, Tokyo 101-8308, Japan.
Asst. Prof., Dept. of Civ. Engrg., Nihon Univ., Coll. of Sci. and Tech., Tokyo, Japan.
Res. Assoc., Dept. of Civ. Engrg., Nihon Univ., Coll. of Sci. and Tech., Tokyo, Japan.
Asst. Prof., Dept. of Civ. Engrg., Government Coll. of Engineering, Amaravati–444 604, India.
Prin., Yashvantrao Chavan Coll. of Engineering, Wanadongari, Nagpur, India.
Prof., Dept. of Civ. Engrg., Visvesvaraya Regional Coll. of Engineering, Nagpur, India.
Asst. Prof., Isfahan Univ. of Tech., Isfahan, Iran 84154.
Prof., Dept. of Civ. and Envir. Engrg., Univ. of Alberta, Edmonton, AB, Canada T6G 2G7.

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