Particle-driven gravity currents down planar slopes

DOI10.1017/S0022112099004917zbMath0982.76093OpenAlexW2164478203MaRDI QIDQ4951973

John R. Lister, Roger T. Bonnecaze

Publication date: 29 March 2002

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

Full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.1017/s0022112099004917

zbMATH Keywords

buoyancysuspensionsimilarity solutionnumerical solutionscaling analysisshallow-water equationshomogeneous turbulencebottom frictionparticle-driven gravity currentsmild slopedepositional patternsentrainment of ambient fluidplanar slopesource of dense fluidsteeper slope

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Suspensions (76T20) Isotropic turbulence; homogeneous turbulence (76F05)

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