Experimental and numerical simulation of three-dimensional gravity currents on smooth and rough bottom

DOI10.1063/1.3002381zbMath1182.76416MaRDI QIDQ5304262

Giampiero Sciortino, Allen Bateman Pinzon, C. Adduce, Michele La Rocca

Publication date: 18 March 2010

Published in: Physics of Fluids (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.1063/1.3002381

zbMATH Keywords

finite volume methods; hydrodynamics; gravity waves

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

76-XX: Fluid mechanics

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Boussinesq and non-Boussinesq gravity currents propagating on unbounded uniform slopes in the deceleration phase, Gravity currents from moving sources, Lock-exchange release density currents over three-dimensional regular roughness elements, High-resolution simulations of cylindrical gravity currents in a rotating system, Lattice Boltzmann simulations of gravity currents, Experiments on gravity currents propagating on different bottom slopes

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