On the spinup and spreadout of a Cartesian gravity current on a slope in a rotating system

DOI10.1017/JFM.2022.447OpenAlexW4282968124MaRDI QIDQ5083597

Marius Ungarish

Publication date: 20 June 2022

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

Full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.1017/jfm.2022.447

zbMATH Keywords

rotating flowEkman layerdense-fluid Boussinesq gravity currentlarge Rossby number modelquasi-steady geostrophic equations

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Hydrology, hydrography, oceanography (86A05) General theory of rotating fluids (76U05) Geophysical flows (76U60)

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