Effect of Schmidt number on the structure and propagation of density currents

DOI10.1007/s00162-008-0085-2zbMath1178.76115OpenAlexW2043497420MaRDI QIDQ1032064

Thomas Bonometti, S. Raja Balachandar

Publication date: 26 October 2009

Published in: Theoretical and Computational Fluid Dynamics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.1007/s00162-008-0085-2

zbMATH Keywords

finite volume methodsmixingspectral methodsgravity currentsdensity currentsbuoyancy driven flows

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Navier-Stokes equations for incompressible viscous fluids (76D05) Finite volume methods applied to problems in fluid mechanics (76M12) Spectral methods applied to problems in fluid mechanics (76M22)

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