Gravity Currents
Density currents and inclined gravity currents, including structure, scaling, mixing, and entrainment.
Publications (7)
- Structure and scaling of inclined temporal gravity currents Journal of Fluid Mechanics (2025)
- Mixing and entrainment in inclined gravity currents Conference (2025)
- Mixing and entrainment are suppressed in inclined gravity currents Journal of Fluid Mechanics (2019)
- Small-scale entrainment in inclined gravity currents Environmental Fluid Mechanics (2017)
- Fractal scaling of the turbulence interface in gravity currents Journal of Fluid Mechanics (2017)
- Clustering of particles in turbulence due to phoresis Physical Review E (2016)
- Turbulent entrainment in a gravity current Conference Sustainable Hydraulics in the Era of Global Change (2016)
Demos (1)
- Gravity currents — the lock-release experiment Pour something dense into something lighter and it doesn't sit still — it races along the bottom in a head-and-tail structure with a remarkably steady speed. Compare the simulated current with a two-layer shallow-water prediction.