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Multi-mode models of flow and of solute dispersion in shallow water. Part 2. Logarithmic velocity profiles

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  26 April 2006

R. Smith
Affiliation:
Mathematical Sciences, Loughborough University of Technology, LE11 3TU, UK

Abstract

A two-mode model for velocity and solute concentration in shallow-water flows is derived which allows for departures from the logarithmic velocity profile and from vertically well-mixed concentrations. The modelling is tested against exact results for a buoyancy-driven transverse flow and for a modified logarithmic velocity profile.

Type
Research Article
Copyright
© 1995 Cambridge University Press

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