A numerical investigation of horizontal viscous gravity currents

Journal of Fluid Mechanics

Volumn 630, Issue , 2009, Pages 71-91

  Hallez, Yannick ^a,b,c   Magnaudet, Jacques ^a,b,c  

^a UNIVERSITÉ DE TOULOUSE   (France)

^b INPT   (France)

^c IMFT   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FORECASTING; GRAVITATION; GRAVITY WAVES; REYNOLDS NUMBER;

COMPUTATIONAL RESULTS; LABORATORY EXPERIMENTS; NO-SLIP BOUNDARY CONDITIONS; NUMERICAL INVESTIGATIONS; NUMERICAL PREDICTIONS; NUMERICAL TECHNIQUES; THREE-DIMENSIONAL COMPUTATIONS; VISCOUS GRAVITY CURRENTS;

VISCOUS FLOW;

BOUNDARY CONDITION; CURRENT; IMMISCIBLE FLUID; NUMERICAL METHOD; REYNOLDS NUMBER; VISCOUS FLOW;

EID: 67650869604     PISSN: 00221120     EISSN: 14697645     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S0022112009006454     Document Type: Article

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