A general description of a gravity current front propagating in a two-layer stratified fluid

DOI10.1017/JFM.2012.409zbMATH Open1275.76061OpenAlexW2323636249MaRDI QIDQ2863458FDOQ2863458

Authors: Brian L. White, Karl R. Helfrich 

Publication date: 21 November 2013

Published in: Journal of Fluid Mechanics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://semanticscholar.org/paper/eeb238236242659756ef4335b003a0e14905eff9

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zbMATH Keywords

internal wavesgravity currentshydraulic control

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Internal waves for incompressible inviscid fluids (76B55) Finite volume methods applied to problems in fluid mechanics (76M12) Hydrology, hydrography, oceanography (86A05) Stratification effects in inviscid fluids (76B70)

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Cited In (6)

• Interaction between an inclined gravity current and a pycnocline in a two-layer stratification
• On the front condition for compositional gravity currents
• Gravity currents and internal waves in a stratified fluid
• Models of internal jumps and the fronts of gravity currents: unifying two-layer theories and deriving new results
• Large eddy simulation of thermocline flow phenomena and mixing during discharging of an initially homogeneous or stratified storage tank
• Gravity currents propagating into two-layer stratified fluids: vorticity-based models

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