Discussion of “Debris-Blocking Sensitivity of Piano Key Weirs under Reservoir-Type Approach Flow” by Michael Pfister, Damiano Capobianco, Blake Tullis and Anton J. Schleiss
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Acknowledgments
The discusser gratefully appreciates Professor Thanos Papanicolaou from the University of Tennessee, anonymous reviewers, and the discussed paper’s authors for their noteworthy contributions and kind closure for a few standpoints raised in the discussion.
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Received: Apr 1, 2014
Accepted: Dec 2, 2014
Published online: Aug 6, 2015
Published in print: Oct 1, 2015
Discussion open until: Jan 6, 2016
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