Amazon cover image
Image from Amazon.com

An introduction to gravity currents and intrusions / Marius Ungarish.

By: Boca Raton : CRC Press, c2009Description: xv, 489 p. : ill. ; 25 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 9781584889038 (hard back : alk. paper)
  • 1584889039 (hard back : alk. paper)
Subject(s): LOC classification:
  • QB334 .U54 2009
Contents:
Shallow-water (SW) formulation for high-Re flows -- The steady-state current and nose jump conditions -- Box models for 2D geometry -- Two-layer SW model -- Axisymmetric currents, SW formulation -- Box models for axisymmetric geometry -- Effects of rotation -- Buoyancy decays: particle-driven, porous boundary, and entrainment -- Non-Boussinesq systems -- Lubrication theory formulation for viscous currents -- Continuous density transition -- Axisymmetric and rotating cases -- The steady-state current -- Intrusions in 2D geometry -- Intrusions in axisymmetric geometry -- Box models for 2D geometry -- Box models for axisymmetric geometry -- Lubrication theory for viscous currents with S=1 -- Energy -- SW equations: characteristics and finite-difference schemes -- Navier-Stokes numerical simulations -- Some useful formulas.
Holdings
Item type Current library Call number Copy number Status Date due Barcode Item holds
BOOK BOOK NCAR Library Foothills Lab QB334 .U54 2009 1 Available 50583010335937
Total holds: 0

"A Chapman & Hall book."

Includes bibliographical references (p. 477-485) and index.

Shallow-water (SW) formulation for high-Re flows -- The steady-state current and nose jump conditions -- Box models for 2D geometry -- Two-layer SW model -- Axisymmetric currents, SW formulation -- Box models for axisymmetric geometry -- Effects of rotation -- Buoyancy decays: particle-driven, porous boundary, and entrainment -- Non-Boussinesq systems -- Lubrication theory formulation for viscous currents -- Continuous density transition -- Axisymmetric and rotating cases -- The steady-state current -- Intrusions in 2D geometry -- Intrusions in axisymmetric geometry -- Box models for 2D geometry -- Box models for axisymmetric geometry -- Lubrication theory for viscous currents with S=1 -- Energy -- SW equations: characteristics and finite-difference schemes -- Navier-Stokes numerical simulations -- Some useful formulas.

Questions? Email library@ucar.edu.

Not finding what you are looking for? InterLibrary Loan.