Capturing the baroclinic effect in non-Boussinesq gravity currents

Direct numerical simulations of two-dimensional gravity currents with small and medium density variations are performed using different non-Boussinesq buoyancy approximations. Taking the full low-Mach-number approximation as the reference, the accuracy of several buoyancy terms are examined. It is f...

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Main Authors: Shengqi Zhang, Zhenhua Xia
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Elsevier 2022-01-01
Series:Theoretical and Applied Mechanics Letters
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Online Access:http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2095034921001203