A two-layer approach to modelling the transformation of dilute pyroclastic currents into dense pyroclastic flows

Proceedings of the Royal Society A: Mathematical, Physical and Engineering Sciences

Volumn 467, Issue 2129, 2011, Pages 1348-1371

  Doyle, Emma E ^a,b   Hogg, Andrew J ^b   Mader, Heidy M ^b  

^a MASSEY UNIVERSITY   (New Zealand)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BRISTOL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Dense basal flow; Dilute current; Numerical model; Pyroclastic flow

Indexed keywords

CONSERVATION EQUATIONS; CONSTANT TEMPERATURE; DENSE BASAL FLOW; DENSE GRANULAR FLOWS; DILUTE CURRENT; ENDMEMBERS; FLUID TURBULENCE; GRANULAR AVALANCHE; NATURALLY OCCURRING; NUMERICAL MODEL; PARTICLE COLLISION; PYROCLASTIC FLOWS; SEDIMENTATION OF PARTICLES; SINGLE-LAYER MODELS; TWO LAYER MODEL; TWO-LAYER APPROACH; VOLCANIC ASH; VOLCANIC ERUPTIONS;

PARTICLES (PARTICULATE MATTER);

VOLCANOES;

EID: 79957501061     PISSN: 13645021     EISSN: 14712946     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rspa.2010.0402     Document Type: Article

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