Environmental hydraulics : stratified flows

✍ Scribed by Flemming Bo Pedersen

• Publisher: Springer-Verlag
• Year: 1986
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 279
• Series: Lecture notes on coastal and estuarine studies, 18
• Category: Library

✦ Table of Contents

Title Page......Page 2
Copyright......Page 3
Contents......Page 4
Acknowledgement......Page 7
Part I Non-Miscible Stratified Flows
......Page 8
1. Introduction......Page 9
2. Pressure Conditions and Potential Energy
......Page 13
3.1 Dense Bottom Currents......Page 24
3.2 The Stationary Salt Water Wedge......Page 26
3.3 Containment of Oil Spill in Rivers and Harbours
......Page 30
Part II Miscible Stratified Flows
......Page 41
4. The Equations of Continuity and Motion for Miscible Stratified Flows
......Page 42
4 .1 The Continuity Equations......Page 43
4.2 The Equations of Motion
......Page 47
5. IRtf = The Bulk Flux Richardson Number
......Page 61
6. Entrainment VE
......Page 67
7. Interfacial Shear Stress 쐀椀
......Page 77
8. Dense Bottom Currents......Page 86
9. Free Penetrative Convection......Page 103
10. Winddriven Stratified Flow......Page 117
11. Horizontal Buoyant Flow......Page 131
12. Vertical Buoyant Jets and Plumes
......Page 150
Appendix - the State of Seawater
......Page 158
References......Page 164
Part III Case Studies
......Page 169
13. Comments on Part III
......Page 170
Theoretical Background......Page 171
Experimental Setup......Page 174
References:......Page 180
Nonrotating Dense Bottom Currents......Page 181
Rotating Dense Bottom Currents......Page 185
Summary......Page 196
Appendix II.?Notation
......Page 197
The Experimental Set-Up
......Page 199
Theoretical Background......Page 200
References......Page 206
Velocity Distribution in Plane Couette Flow
......Page 207
Circulation in a Prismatic Lake
......Page 211
References:......Page 214
Introduction......Page 215
The Basic Principles and Assumptions for the Model......Page 216
Mixing in a Two-Layer Stratified Flow......Page 218
Characteristics of the Subareas......Page 222
Conclusion......Page 233
References......Page 234
Basic Assumptions......Page 235
Derivation of Flow Equations
......Page 238
Solution of Equations
......Page 240
Comparison with Experiments
......Page 243
Appendix I.?References
......Page 245
Appendix II.?Notation
......Page 246
Governing Equations......Page 247
Calculation of the Currents Without Friction
......Page 248
Calculation of the Currents Including Friction
......Page 249
The Mixing Efficiency......Page 252
References:......Page 255
Introduction......Page 257
2. The Ice-Free Period
......Page 259
3. The Ice-Covered Period
......Page 263
References:......Page 264
The Stratified Flow Flume......Page 265
Scope of Experiments
......Page 270
References......Page 275
Subject Index......Page 276