Self-similar solutions of the shallow-water equations representing gravity currents with variable inflow

DOI10.1017/S0022112086000678zbMath0623.76008MaRDI QIDQ3761897

James W. Rottman, R. E. Grundy

Publication date: 1986

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

zbMATH Keywords

boundary conditionsgravity currentstwo-dimensional problemphase-plane methodaxisymmetric shallow-water equationsexistence of similarity solutions

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Multiphase and multicomponent flows (76T99) Water waves, gravity waves; dispersion and scattering, nonlinear interaction (76B15) Basic methods in fluid mechanics (76M99)

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