On a similarity solution for lock-release gravity currents affected by slope, drag and entrainment

DOI10.1017/jfm.2024.522MaRDI QIDQ6593979

M. Ungarish

Publication date: 27 August 2024

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

zbMATH Keywords

water wavesgravity currentssel-similar solutions

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Dimensional analysis and similarity applied to problems in fluid mechanics (76M55) Jets and cavities, cavitation, free-streamline theory, water-entry problems, airfoil and hydrofoil theory, sloshing (76B10)

Cites Work

• Experiments on gravity currents propagating on different bottom slopes
• Entraining gravity currents
• Axisymmetric gravity currents on a cone
• Experiments on gravity currents propagating down slopes. Part 2. The evolution of a fixed volume of fluid released from closed locks into a long, open channel
• Mixing and entrainment are suppressed in inclined gravity currents
• Gravity currents and related phenomena

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