Gravity current upstream of a buoyant influx in an open-channel flow: a numerical study

DOI10.1017/S0022112084000616zbMath0579.76027OpenAlexW1985777658MaRDI QIDQ3702686

Timothy W. Kao, Daniel T. Valentine

Publication date: 1984

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

Full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.1017/s0022112084000616

zbMATH Keywords

finite-differenceBoussinesq fluidinitial-boundary-value problemopen-channel flowbuoyant fluidinflow densimetric Froude numberinflux of buoyancylaminar motionstwo-zone equilibriumupstream intrusion

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Navier-Stokes equations for incompressible viscous fluids (76D05) Multiphase and multicomponent flows (76T99) Diffusion and convection (76R99)

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• Laminar flow past an abruptly accelerated elliptic cylinder at 45° incidence
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• Numerical study of natural convection in an enclosure with localized heating from below—creeping flow to the onset of laminar instability
• Gravity currents and related phenomena
• Comparison of finite-difference computations of natural convection

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