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Stably stratified flows : flow and dispersion over topography : based on the proceedings of the Fourth Conference on Stably Stratified Flows, organized by the Institute of Mathematics and Its Applications and held at the University of Surrey in September, 1992

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Stably stratified flows : flow and dispersion over topography : based on the proceedings of the Fourth Conference on Stably Stratified Flows, organized by the Institute of Mathematics and Its Applications and held at the University of Surrey in September, 1992 / edited by I.P. Castro and N.J. Rockliff.
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Oxford : Clarendon Press ; Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 1994.

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  • Castro, I. P.
  • Rockliff, N. J.
  • Institute of Mathematics and Its Applications.
  • Conference on Stably Stratified Flows (4th : 1992 : University of Surrey)
Description
xiii, 358 pages : illustrations; 24 cm.
Series Statement
Institute of Mathematics and Its Applications conference series ; new ser., 52
Uniform Title
Institute of Mathematics and Its Applications conference series ; new ser., 52.
Subjects
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references.
Contents
  • Mechanisms for upstream effects in two-dimensional stratified flow / P. G. Baines -- Mesoscale blocking ahead of mountain ridges / P. A. Taylor and K. W. Ayotte -- Strongly stratified airflow over and around mountains / M. Greenslade -- Steady and unsteady computations of strongly stratified flows over a vertical barrier / M. F. Paisley, I. P. Castro and N. J. Rockliff -- Observations of internal gravity waves over an Antarctic ice shelf using a microbarograph array / J. M. Rees, I. McConnell, P. S. Anderson and J. C. King -- Spontaneous generation of internal gravity waves in a wind tunnel / H. Makita, S. Mori and A. Yahagi -- Surface boundary conditions in stably-stratified environmental flows / J. C. King, S. D. Mobbs and N. R. Edwards -- The sensitivity of stable boundary layers to small slopes and other influences / S. H. Derbyshire and N. Wood -- Simple models of flow over topography driven by horizontal density gradients / A. Kay.
  • Shallow flow over general topography with applications to monotonic mountains / A. S. Broad, D. Porter and M. J. Sewell -- Numerical simulations of stably-stratified rotating turbulence / O. Metais, J. J. Riley and M. Lesieur -- Modelling turbulent stratified flow over buildings and hills / D. D. Apsley -- Turbulence, waves and mixing at stratified density interfaces: modelling and experiments / H. J. S. Fernando, J. C. R. Hunt and D. J. Carruthers -- Wind and turbulence structure in stably stratified flow in the lee of high mountains / A.-S. Smedman -- The shallow water approximations in dense gas dispersion over complex terrain / R. K. S. Hankin and R. E. Britter -- Dispersion of industrial gases over variable topography / T. B. Staples and A. M. Riddle -- Modelling turbulent diffusion from a point source in strongly stratified flow around a three dimensional arbitrarily-shaped hill / W. S. Weng and D. J. Carruthers.
  • On application of the Langevin equation to turbulent dispersion in nonhomogeneous conditions (Thomson 1984 model revisited) / F. Tampieri, C. Scarani and U. Giostra -- Effects produced by velocity covariance on a Lagrangian model of dispersion over obstacles / A. Cenedese, G. Leuzzi and P. Monti -- Some observations of the influence of stratification on diffusion in building wakes / W. H. Snyder -- Flow and dispersion around buildings in light wind conditions / A. Robins.
ISBN
0198536984
LCCN
94017555
OCLC
ocm30518302
Owning Institutions
Columbia University Libraries