A shallow-water model for high-Reynolds-number gravity currents for a wide range of density differences and fractional depths

Journal of Fluid Mechanics

Volumn 579, Issue , 2007, Pages 373-382

  Ungarish, Marius ^a  

^a TECHNION ISRAEL INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Israel)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; GRAVITY WAVES; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; REYNOLDS NUMBER;

GRAVITY CURRENT; SHALLOW-WATER MODEL;

FLOW OF WATER;

COMPUTER SIMULATION; FLOW OF WATER; GRAVITY WAVES; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; REYNOLDS NUMBER;

FLUID FLOW; NUMERICAL MODEL; REYNOLDS NUMBER; SHALLOW-WATER EQUATION;

EID: 34047235177     PISSN: 00221120     EISSN: 14697645     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S0022112007005484     Document Type: Article

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