Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Dedication
- Epigraph
- Contents
- Preface to the Second Edition
- Preface to the First Edition
- 1 Background
- 2 Non-linear single-layer flow: classical hydraulics
- 3 Non-linear single-layer flow past obstacles: jumps, bores and wave dispersion
- 4 Two-layer flow with jumps and topography
- 5 Two-layer and stratified flow through contractions
- 6 Exchange flows
- 7 Gravity currents, downslope and anabatic flows, and stratified hydraulic jumps
- 8 Waves in stratified fluids
- 9 The stability of stratified flows
- 10 Stratified flow over two-dimensional obstacles: linear and nearlinear theory
- 11 Stratified flowover two-dimensional obstacles: non-linear hydraulic models with applications
- 12 Stratified flow over three-dimensional topography: linear theory
- 13 Three-dimensional stratified flow over finite obstacles
- 14 Flow over complex and realistic terrain in the atmosphere and ocean
- 15 Applications to practical modelling of flow over complex terrain
- References
- Index
10 - Stratified flow over two-dimensional obstacles: linear and nearlinear theory
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 04 April 2025
- Frontmatter
- Dedication
- Epigraph
- Contents
- Preface to the Second Edition
- Preface to the First Edition
- 1 Background
- 2 Non-linear single-layer flow: classical hydraulics
- 3 Non-linear single-layer flow past obstacles: jumps, bores and wave dispersion
- 4 Two-layer flow with jumps and topography
- 5 Two-layer and stratified flow through contractions
- 6 Exchange flows
- 7 Gravity currents, downslope and anabatic flows, and stratified hydraulic jumps
- 8 Waves in stratified fluids
- 9 The stability of stratified flows
- 10 Stratified flow over two-dimensional obstacles: linear and nearlinear theory
- 11 Stratified flowover two-dimensional obstacles: non-linear hydraulic models with applications
- 12 Stratified flow over three-dimensional topography: linear theory
- 13 Three-dimensional stratified flow over finite obstacles
- 14 Flow over complex and realistic terrain in the atmosphere and ocean
- 15 Applications to practical modelling of flow over complex terrain
- References
- Index
- Type
- Chapter
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- Topographic Effects in Stratified Flows , pp. 261 - 320Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2022