Propagation of viscous gravity currents inside confining boundaries: The effects of fluid rheology and channel geometry

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

Volumn 471, Issue 2178, 2015, Pages

  Longo, S ^a   Di Federico, V ^b   Chiapponi, L ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PARMA   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BOLOGNA   (Italy)

Author keywords

Channel; Laboratory experiments; Non Newtonian; Similarity solution; Viscous gravity current

Indexed keywords

ASPECT RATIO; ELASTICITY; GEOMETRY; GRAVITATION; GRAVITY WAVES; NON NEWTONIAN FLOW;

CHANNEL; LABORATORY EXPERIMENTS; NON-NEWTONIAN; SIMILARITY SOLUTION; VISCOUS GRAVITY CURRENTS;

VISCOUS FLOW;

EID: 84930863039     PISSN: 13645021     EISSN: 14712946     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rspa.2015.0070     Document Type: Article

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