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9780521664011

Gravity Currents: In the Environment and the Laboratory

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  • ISBN13:

    9780521664011

  • ISBN10:

    0521664012

  • Edition: 2nd
  • Format: Paperback
  • Copyright: 1999-11-13
  • Publisher: Cambridge University Press

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Summary

This book comprehensively describes all aspects of gravity flow, a physical process in the environment that is covered by many disciplines including meteorology, oceanography, the earth sciences and industrial processes. The first edition was very well received, and the author has brought the new edition completely up to date, with much new material. Simpson describes gravity currents with a variety of laboratory experiments, many from his own work. 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 author clearly describes the physics of flows involved without advanced mathematics, and with 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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