Quantitative modelling of granular suspension flows

Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society A: Mathematical, Physical and Engineering Sciences

Volumn 356, Issue 1747, 1998, Pages 2471-2496

  Huppert, Herbert E ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Box model solutions; Buoyant plumes; External mean flows; Light interstitial fluid; Particulate suspension flows; Shallow water equations

Indexed keywords

EID: 3042946771     PISSN: 1364503X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rsta.1998.0282     Document Type: Article

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