Two-layer model for shallow horizontal convective circulation

DOI10.1017/S0022112080001048zbMath0466.76042OpenAlexW2009038799MaRDI QIDQ3919308

Dominique N. Brocard, Donald R. F. Harleman

Publication date: 1980

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

Full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.1017/s0022112080001048

zbMATH Keywords

two-layer modelinterfacial shear stresssurface buoyancy fluxhorizontal and sloping bottomsmass, momentum, and buoyancy conservation equationsRed seashallow horizontal convective circulationside arms of cooling lakes

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Hydrology, hydrography, oceanography (86A05) Diffusion and convection (76R99) Stability and instability of geophysical and astrophysical flows (76E20)

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Cites Work

• Flow and Stress Near an Interface between Stratified Liquids

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