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Article: Turbulent lock release gravity current

TitleTurbulent lock release gravity current
Authors
KeywordsEnvironmental hydraulics
Gravity current
Turbulence modeling
Issue Date2001
PublisherScience in China Press. The Journal's web site is located at http://219.238.6.200/journal?code=10
Citation
Science In China, Series E: Technological Sciences, 2001, v. 44 n. 5, p. X-462 How to Cite?
AbstractThe time evolution of a turbulent lock release gravity current, formed by a finite volume of homogeneous fluid released instantaneously into another fluid of slightly lower density was studied by experimental measurements of the density structure via elaborate digital image processing and by a numerical simulation of the flow and mixing using a two-equation turbulence model. The essential fact that the gravity current passes through an initial slumping phase in which the current head advances steadily and a second self-similar phase in which the front velocity decreases like the negative third power of the time after release is satisfactorily presented by the laboratory observation. An overall entrainment ratio proportional to the distance from the release point is found by the numerical simulation. The renormalization group (RNG) k - ε model for Reynolds-stress closure is validated to characterize the gravity current with transitional and localized turbulence.
Persistent Identifierhttp://hdl.handle.net/10722/71555
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dc.contributor.authorLee, JHWen_HK
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dc.date.issued2001en_HK
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dc.subjectEnvironmental hydraulicsen_HK
dc.subjectGravity currenten_HK
dc.subjectTurbulence modelingen_HK
dc.titleTurbulent lock release gravity currenten_HK
dc.typeArticleen_HK
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