Viscous spreading of non-Newtonian gravity currents on a plane

Meccanica

Volumn 41, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 207-217

  Di Federico, Vittorio ^a   Malavasi, Stefano ^b   Cintoli, Stefano ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BOLOGNA   (Italy)

^b POLITECNICO DI MILANO   (Italy)

Author keywords

Fluid mechanics; Gravity current; Non Newtonian fluids; Self similar solution; Viscous flow

Indexed keywords

APPROXIMATION THEORY; DIFFERENTIAL EQUATIONS; EQUATIONS OF STATE OF LIQUIDS; FAST FOURIER TRANSFORMS; FLUID MECHANICS; GRAVITATION;

APPROXIMATE ANALYTICAL SOLUTION; GRAVITY CURRENT; INERTIAL FORCES; SELF-SIMILAR SOLUTIONS;

VISCOUS FLOW;

EID: 33646569414     PISSN: 00256455     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11012-005-3354-9     Document Type: Article

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