A modelling study of transient, buoyancy-driven exchange flow over a descending barrier

Environmental Fluid Mechanics

Volumn 4, Issue 2, 2004, Pages 127-155

  Cuthbertson, Alan J S ^a   Davies, Peter A ^a   Coates, Michael J ^b   Guo, Yakun ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF DUNDEE   (United Kingdom)

^b DEAKIN UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Buoyancy; Exchange flow; Mixing; Stratification; Turbulence

Indexed keywords

BUOYANCY; FLUID FLOW; MIXING; NUMERICAL MODEL; SALINITY; STRATIFICATION; TURBULENCE;

EID: 4344559692     PISSN: 15677419     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/B:EFMC.0000016472.52867.eb     Document Type: Article

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