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Gravity Currents

This 1997 book comprehensively describes all aspects of gravity flow, a physical process in the environment that is covered by many different disciplines, including meteorology, oceanography, the earth sciences and many industrial processes. No other book covers a similar range of information. This second edition includes much new material, and, like the first edition, the hardback has been very well received. Gravity currents are described with a variety of laboratory experiments, many from the author's own work. Now in paperback, 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 physics of the flows involved is clearly described, without advanced mathematics, by numerous photographs and illustrations.

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

Specifications

Pm Supplier	CUP/ Cambridge University Press
Pm Publisher	Cambridge University Press
Pm Isbn 10	0521664012
Pm Isbn 13	9780521664011
Pm Publication Date	1999-10-21
Pm Width	182
Pm Height	15
Pm Author	Simpson,John E, Thorpe,Steve
Pm Longness	255

In the Environment and the Laboratory
Key Info: 93 b/w photos, 137 illustrations
Author: Simpson,John E, Thorpe,Steve
Page Count: 244
Publication Date: 1999-10-21