Segregation-induced fingering instabilities in granular free-surface flows

Journal of Fluid Mechanics

Volumn 709, Issue , 2012, Pages 543-580

  Woodhouse, M J ^a,d   Thornton, A R ^b   Johnson, C G ^a,d   Kokelaar, B P ^c   Gray, J M N T ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MANCHESTER   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TWENTE   (Netherlands)

^c UNIVERSITY OF LIVERPOOL   (United Kingdom)

^d UNIVERSITY OF BRISTOL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Granular media; Instability; Shallow water flows

Indexed keywords

AVALANCHES (SNOWSLIDES); EMBANKMENTS; FEEDBACK; FRICTION; LEVEES; PARTICLE SIZE; PLASMA STABILITY; STABILITY; SURFACE SEGREGATION;

CONCENTRATION-DEPENDENT; FINGERING INSTABILITIES; GEOPHYSICAL MASS FLOW; GRANULAR MEDIA; LABORATORY EXPERIMENTS; NON-STRICTLY HYPERBOLIC; PARTICLE SIZE SEGREGATION; SHALLOW WATER FLOW;

SEGREGATION (METALLOGRAPHY);

AVALANCHE; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DEBRIS FLOW; EXPERIMENTAL STUDY; FLOW MODELING; FLOW STABILITY; FREE SURFACE FLOW; GRANULAR MEDIUM; HAZARD ASSESSMENT; LABORATORY METHOD; NUMERICAL MODEL; PARAMETERIZATION; PARTICLE SIZE; RHEOLOGY; SHALLOW WATER; SIZE DISTRIBUTION; SNOW AVALANCHE; WAVELENGTH;

EID: 84880728680     PISSN: 00221120     EISSN: 14697645     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/jfm.2012.348     Document Type: Article

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