Numerical simulations of lock-exchange compositional gravity current

DOI10.1017/S0022112009007599zbMath1183.76707MaRDI QIDQ3550379

George Constantinescu, Larry Weber, Seng Keat Ooi

Publication date: 31 March 2010

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

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Incompressible viscous fluids (76D99) Finite volume methods applied to problems in fluid mechanics (76M12)

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