Author(s): A. Viviano; R. E. Musumecie. Foti
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Keywords: Gravity currents; Wave propagation; Lock-exchange; Boussinesq modeling
Abstract: The evolution of a brackish water discharge in the presence of a wave field is investigated by a fully nonlinear Boussinesq-type model for breaking waves coupled with a two-dimensional gravity current model. On the basis of a comparison with laboratory data on non-breaking waves, it is shown that the model is able to accurately predict the evolution of density currents.
Year: 2014