Lock-release gravity currents and dam-break flows

Journal of Fluid Mechanics

Volumn 569, Issue , 2006, Pages 61-87

  Hogg, Andrew J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BRISTOL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FLOW OF FLUIDS; GRAVITY WAVES; MATHEMATICAL MODELS;

DAM-BREAK FLOW; FROUDE NUMBER; GRAVITY CURRENT FLOW; SHALLOW WATER EQUATIONS; WAVE-LIKE DISTURBANCE;

GRAVITY DAMS;

FLOW OF FLUIDS; GRAVITY DAMS; GRAVITY WAVES; MATHEMATICAL MODELS;

DAM; FLUID MECHANICS; FROUDE NUMBER; GRAVITY FLOW; SHALLOW-WATER EQUATION;

EID: 33751058303     PISSN: 00221120     EISSN: 14697645     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S0022112006002588     Document Type: Article

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