Abrupt transitions in high-concentration, particle-driven gravity currents
作者:
Mark A. Hallworth,
Herbert E. Huppert,
期刊:
Physics of Fluids
(AIP Available online 1998)
卷期:
Volume 10,
issue 5
页码: 1083-1087
ISSN:1070-6631
年代: 1998
DOI:10.1063/1.869633
出版商: AIP
数据来源: AIP
摘要:
A systematic series of experiments on the instantaneous release of two-dimensional, heavy, particle-driven gravity currents has been conducted. High-concentration currents propagated in a qualitatively different way than low concentration currents. In particular, beyond a critical initial volume fraction of particles, the resulting dense current came to an abrupt halt at some point down the channel, depositing the bulk of its initial sediment load as a relativly thick layer of fairly constant thickness, characterized by a pronounced, steep snout. A very much thinner layer of sediment extended for some distance beyond the arrest point. This layer was deposited from the subsequent propagation of a slower moving, low concentration residual cloud. ©1998 American Institute of Physics.
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