Modelling gravity currents without an energy closure

DOI10.1017/jfm.2015.755zbMath1374.76028OpenAlexW2331415548MaRDI QIDQ4594044

Stefan G. Llewellyn Smith, N. A. Konopliv, Jim Nicholas McElwaine, Eckart Meiburg

Publication date: 17 November 2017

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

Full work available at URL: http://dro.dur.ac.uk/28780/1/28780.pdf

zbMATH Keywords

stratified flowsgravity currentsgeophysical and geological flows

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Water waves, gravity waves; dispersion and scattering, nonlinear interaction (76B15)

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