Effect of Schmidt number on the structure and propagation of density currents

Theoretical and Computational Fluid Dynamics

Volumn 22, Issue 5, 2008, Pages 341-361

  Bonometti, Thomas ^a   Balachandar, S ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA   (United States)

Author keywords

Buoyancy driven flows; Density currents; Finite volume methods; Gravity currents; Mixing; Spectral methods

Indexed keywords

BOUSSINESQ; BUOYANCY DRIVEN FLOWS; DENSITY CURRENTS; FINITE VOLUME METHODS; GRAVITY CURRENTS; INTERFACE CAPTURING METHOD; MIXING; NUMERICAL STUDIES; REYNOLDS; SCHMIDT NUMBER; SPECTRAL METHODS; STRUCTURE AND DYNAMICS;

NUMERICAL ANALYSIS; REYNOLDS NUMBER; SCANDIUM; THREE DIMENSIONAL; TURBULENCE;

MIXED CONVECTION;

BUOYANCY; DENSITY CURRENT; FINITE VOLUME METHOD; MIXING; NUMERICAL METHOD; REYNOLDS NUMBER; RICHARDSON NUMBER; THREE-DIMENSIONAL MODELING; VORTEX;

EID: 49049085839     PISSN: 09354964     EISSN: 14322250     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00162-008-0085-2     Document Type: Article

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