Proceedings Volume 2013
2013 Program in Geophysical Fluid Dynamics
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Buoyancy-Driven Flows
Claudia Cenedese, Eric Chassignet and Stefan Llewellyn Smith, Directors
Paul Linden, Principal Lecturer
Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution
Woods Hole, MA 02543
Lecture Notes taken by GFD Fellows
Principal Lectures
Preface (pdf)
Preface 2013
Lecture 1 (pdf)
Introduction to gravity currents
Lecture 2 (pdf)
Scaling laws
Lecture 3 (pdf)
Hydraulic theories
Lecture 4 (pdf)
Shallow water theory
Lecture 5 (pdf)
Two-layer bores and non-Boussinesq gravity currents
Lecture 6 (pdf)
Stratified environments
Lecture 7 (pdf)
Continuously stratified ambient
Lecture 8 (pdf)
Rotating currents
Lecture 9 (pdf)
Mass loss currents
Lecture 10 (pdf)
Gravity currents on slopes and in turbulent environments
Fellows' Reports
Response of thermohaline circulation to changes in precipitation (pdf)
Yuki Yasuda, University of Tokyo
Particle driven flow down an incline into a linear stratification (pdf)
Kate Snow, Australian National University
Nonlinear optimal perturbations (pdf)
Daniel Lecoanet, University of California, Berkeley
Energy stability and mixing efficiency in forced stratified shear flows (pdf)
Tobias Bischoff, California Institute of Technology
Investigation of lock release gravity currents in an upslope valley (pdf)
Catherine Jones, University of California, San Diego
Modelling the evolution of an iron-rich layer in a double diffusive regime (pdf)
Barbara Zemskova, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
On the collision of sea breeze gravity currents (pdf)
Karin van der Wiel, University of East Anglia
Granular flow in a rotating drum (pdf)
Gregory Wagner, University of California, San Diego
The Stokes drift of internal gravity wave groups (pdf)
Ton van den Bremer, University of Oxford