A numerical study of intrusive compositional gravity currents

Physics of Fluids

Volumn 19, Issue 7, 2007, Pages

  Ooi, Seng Keat ^a   Constantinescu, George ^a   Weber, Larry ^a  

^a University of Iowa   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DENSITY (SPECIFIC GRAVITY); GRASHOF NUMBER; GRAVITY WAVES; LARGE EDDY SIMULATION; NUMERICAL METHODS; OCEAN STRUCTURES;

BOUSSINESQ GRAVITY CURRENTS; COMPOSITIONAL GRAVITY CURRENTS;

OCEAN CURRENTS;

DENSITY (SPECIFIC GRAVITY); GRASHOF NUMBER; GRAVITY WAVES; LARGE EDDY SIMULATION; NUMERICAL METHODS; OCEAN CURRENTS; OCEAN STRUCTURES;

EID: 34547822866     PISSN: 10706631     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1063/1.2750672     Document Type: Article

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