On a similarity solution for lock-release gravity currents affected by slope, drag and entrainment

DOI10.1017/JFM.2024.522MaRDI QIDQ6593979FDOQ6593979

Authors: Marius Ungarish 

Publication date: 27 August 2024

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

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zbMATH Keywords

water wavesgravity currentssel-similar solutions

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Jets and cavities, cavitation, free-streamline theory, water-entry problems, airfoil and hydrofoil theory, sloshing (76B10) Dimensional analysis and similarity applied to problems in fluid mechanics (76M55)

Cites Work

• Gravity currents and related phenomena
• Axisymmetric gravity currents on a cone
• Entraining gravity currents
• Mixing and entrainment are suppressed in inclined gravity currents
• Experiments on gravity currents propagating on different bottom slopes
• Experiments on gravity currents propagating down slopes. II: The evolution of a fixed volume of fluid released from closed locks into a long, open channel

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• On the initial down-slope propagation of a lock-release particle-driven gravity current: shallow-water predictions and comparisons with previously published data

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