Mixing efficiency in run-down gravity currents

DOI10.1017/JFM.2016.696MaRDI QIDQ5360596zbMATHOpenAlexFDO

Authors Graham O. Hughes, P. F. Linden

Publication date 28 September 2017

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

Full work available at URL http://hdl.handle.net/10044/1/42350

zbMATH Keywords

stratified flowsgravity currentsstratified turbulence

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Experimental work for problems pertaining to fluid mechanics (76-05) Stratification effects in turbulence (76F45)

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• Buoyancy-driven exchange flows in inclined ducts
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• Kinematic mixing of two fluids with valve perturbation
• Mixing and entrainment are suppressed in inclined gravity currents
• Lock-exchange release density currents over three-dimensional regular roughness elements
• Density currents front velocity uncertainty
• Mixing in gravity currents
• Mixing and dissipation in particle-driven gravity currents

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