Gravity currents with temperature-dependent viscosity

Computer Assisted Mechanics and Engineering Sciences

Volumn 7, Issue 3, 2000, Pages 251-277

  King, John R ^a   Riley, David S ^a   Sansom, Ahmos ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NOTTINGHAM   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BOUNDARY CONDITIONS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; GRAVITATIONAL EFFECTS; INTEGRAL EQUATIONS; NEWTONIAN LIQUIDS; PARTIAL DIFFERENTIAL EQUATIONS; THERMAL EFFECTS; VISCOSITY;

FINGERING; GRAVITY CURRENTS; PLATEAUING;

COMPUTATIONAL FLUID DYNAMICS;

EID: 0033698099     PISSN: 1232308X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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