Numerical experiments on double diffusive gravity currents

Theoretical and Applied Mechanics

Volumn 48, Issue , 1999, Pages 385-392

  Yoshida, Jiro ^a   Nagashima, Hideki ^a  

^a TOKYO UNIVERSITY OF MARINE SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DENSITY (SPECIFIC GRAVITY); GEOPHYSICS; INTERFACES (MATERIALS); PRANDTL NUMBER; TRANSPORT PROPERTIES; WATER;

DOUBLE DIFFUSIVE GRAVITY CURRENTS; TURBULENT RAYLEIGH NUMBER; TURNER NUMBER;

GRAVITATION;

EID: 0033320177     PISSN: 02856042     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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