Self-accelerating turbidity currents

DOI10.1017/S0022112086001404zbMath0609.76058MaRDI QIDQ3750372

Yusuke Fukushima, Henry M. Pantin, Gary Parker

Publication date: 1986

Published in: Journal of Fluid Mechanics (Search for Journal in Brave)

zbMATH Keywords

solutionsturbulencemean energyfour-equation modelthree-equation modelApproximate layer-averaged equationsbalance of fluid massmean flow momentumsediment entrainmentsediment exchangesediment massself-accelerating turbidity currentturbid underflows

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Hydrology, hydrography, oceanography (86A05) Multiphase and multicomponent flows (76T99) Turbulence (76F99) Basic methods in fluid mechanics (76M99)

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