Dipole solutions for viscous gravity currents: Theory and experiments

Journal of Fluid Mechanics

Volumn 483, Issue , 2003, Pages 91-109

  King, Stuart E ^a   Woods, Andrew W ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BOUNDARY LAYERS; MECHANICAL PERMEABILITY; POLLUTION CONTROL; POROUS MATERIALS; ROCKS;

GRAVITY CURRENTS;

VISCOUS FLOW;

GRAVITY FLOW; PERMEABILITY; POROUS MEDIUM; VISCOUS FLOW;

EID: 0037634189     PISSN: 00221120     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S0022112003003951     Document Type: Article

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