Evaluation of a simplified approach for simulating gravity currents over slopes of varying angles

Computers and Fluids

Volumn 35, Issue 5, 2006, Pages 492-500

  Blanchette, François ^a   Piche, Vincent ^a,b   Meiburg, Eckart ^b   Strauss, Moshe ^c  

^a University of California   (United States)

^b ECOLE POLYTECHNIQUE   (France)

^c NUCLEAR RESEARCH CENTER NEGEV   (Israel)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BOUNDARY CONDITIONS; COMPUTATIONAL GEOMETRY; COMPUTER SIMULATION; GRAVITATIONAL EFFECTS; MATHEMATICAL TRANSFORMATIONS; NAVIER STOKES EQUATIONS; NUMERICAL METHODS; TURBULENT FLOW;

GOVERNING EQUATIONS OF MOTION; GRAVITY CURRENTS; RECTANGULAR COMPUTATIONAL DOMAIN;

COMPUTATIONAL FLUID DYNAMICS;

BOUNDARY CONDITIONS; COMPUTATIONAL FLUID DYNAMICS; COMPUTATIONAL GEOMETRY; COMPUTER SIMULATION; GRAVITATIONAL EFFECTS; MATHEMATICAL TRANSFORMATIONS; NAVIER STOKES EQUATIONS; NUMERICAL METHODS; TURBULENT FLOW;

EID: 30944442418     PISSN: 00457930     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.compfluid.2005.04.002     Document Type: Article

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