Release of a viscous power-law fluid over an inviscid ocean

DOI10.1017/jfm.2012.91zbMath1248.76010MaRDI QIDQ2907115

John R. Lister, Samuel S. Pegler, M. Grae Worster

Publication date: 7 September 2012

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

Full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.1017/jfm.2012.91

zbMATH Keywords

thin films; non-Newtonian flows; gravity currents

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

76A05: Non-Newtonian fluids

86A05: Hydrology, hydrography, oceanography

76A20: Thin fluid films

76M45: Asymptotic methods, singular perturbations applied to problems in fluid mechanics

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