Conditions under which a supercritical turbidity current traverses an abrupt transition to vanishing bed slope without a hydraulic jump

DOI10.1017/S0022112007006738zbMath1178.76110OpenAlexW2046601587MaRDI QIDQ5308042

Gary Parker, Svetlana Kostic

Publication date: 26 September 2007

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

Full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.1017/s0022112007006738

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Hydrology, hydrography, oceanography (86A05) Suspensions (76T20) Incompressible inviscid fluids (76B99)

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• Turbulent entrainment in stratified flows
• Self-accelerating turbidity currents
• Effects of external flow on compositional and particle gravity currents
• On the application of box models to particle-driven gravity currents
• Multi-layer hydraulic exchange flows
• The dynamics of sedimenting surface gravity currents
• Particle-driven gravity currents down planar slopes

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