Gravity currents in the environment and the laboratory

2. ed., 1. pp. ed.

Cambridge

1999

244 S.

Monographie

0-521-56109-4

15504

133239

The book comprehensively describes all aspects of gravity flow, a physical process in the environment that is covered in many different disciplines, including meteorology, oceanography, the earth sciences and many industrial processes. The first edition of this book was very well received, and the new edition has been brought completely up to date. No other book covers a similar range of information. The new edition contains a completely new chapter on gravity currents in satellite imagery, and many new sections, including glacier, purging in pipes, flow over porous media, and recent work on atmospheric bores and sea breezes. The physical processes of gravity currents are described with a variety of laboratory experiments, many from the author's own work. Gravity Currents is valuable supplementary textbook for undergraduates and a reference work for research workers in a range of disciplines, including fluid mechanis, meteorology, oceanography and earth sciences. The general reader will also find much of interest, since the physics of the flows involved is clearly described, without advanced mathematics, by numerous photographs and illustrations.