A numerical study of the frontal region of gravity currents propagating on a free-slip boundary

Theoretical and Computational Fluid Dynamics

Volumn 22, Issue 5, 2008, Pages 383-402

  Scotti, A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA   (United States)

Author keywords

DNS; Gravity currents; Instabilities; Mixing

Indexed keywords

CENTRIFUGAL INSTABILITIES; COMPLEX BEHAVIOR; DNS; GRAVITY CURRENTS; INSTABILITIES; MIXING STATE; NUMERICAL STUDIES; OUTER FLOW; REYNOLDS; SLIP BOUNDARY; SPEED OF PROPAGATION; STRATIFIED FLOWS; STREAMLINE CURVATURES; STRONGLY NONLINEAR; THREE-DIMENSIONAL FLOWS; TURBULENT FLUCTUATIONS; TWO-DIMENSIONAL SIMULATIONS;

AERODYNAMICS; CHLORINE COMPOUNDS; DIGITAL SIGNAL PROCESSING; EXTRACTIVE METALLURGY; FLUID DYNAMICS; FLUID MECHANICS; GRAVITATION; GRAVITATIONAL EFFECTS; GRAVITY WAVES; KETONES; NUMERICAL ANALYSIS; REYNOLDS NUMBER; RIVERS; THREE DIMENSIONAL; TURBULENCE; TWO DIMENSIONAL;

MIXING;

FLOW MODELING; NUMERICAL METHOD; STRATIFICATION; THREE-DIMENSIONAL FLOW; TURBULENCE; TWO-DIMENSIONAL MODELING;

EID: 49049104928     PISSN: 09354964     EISSN: 14322250     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00162-008-0081-6     Document Type: Article

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