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

DOI10.1017/JFM.2012.409MaRDI QIDQ2863458zbMATHOpenAlexFDO

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

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

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