Gravity currents : in the environment and the laboratory
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Gravity currents : in the environment and the laboratory
Cambridge University Press, 1997
2nd ed
- : hbk
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Includes bibliographical references and index
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Description
This 1997 book comprehensively describes all aspects of gravity flow, a physical process in the environment that is covered by many different disciplines, including meteorology, oceanography, the earth sciences and many industrial processes. No other book covers a similar range of information. This second edition includes much new material, and, like the first edition, the hardback has been very well received. Gravity currents are described with a variety of laboratory experiments, many from the author's own work. Now in paperback, Gravity Currents is a valuable supplementary textbook for undergraduates and a reference work for research workers. The general reader will also find much of interest, since the physics of the flows involved is clearly described, without advanced mathematics, by numerous photographs and illustrations.
Table of Contents
- Foreword Steve Thorpe
- Preface
- 1. The nature of gravity currents
- 2. Atmospheric gravity currents
- 3. Sea-breeze fronts
- 4. Gravity currents in satellite imagery
- 5. Fronts and topography
- 6. Environmental problems: atmosphere
- 7. Gravity currents in rivers, lakes and the ocean
- 8. Industrial problems with gravity currents: oceanography
- 9. Avalanches
- 10. Volcanic gravity currents
- 11. The anatomy of a gravity current
- 12. Spread of dense fluid
- 13. Ambient stratification
- 14. Ambient turbulence
- 15. Viscous gravity currents
- 16. Suspension flows
- 17. Gravity currents on a rotating earth
- 18. Numerical models of gravity currents
- Index.
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