Abstract
Recent advances in particulate gravity current research are reviewed and future research areas that demand attention are highlighted. In particular, progress in the following areas is discussed: physical modelling; mathematical modelling approaches, fluid entrainment and detrainment individual flow processes; and new insights from field research. Research on particulate gravity currents has largely been based on individual flow-types, such as turbidity currents, and has often been pursued using a single research approach (e.g. fieldwork, experimental modelling or numerical modelling). There is great scope to integrate further the different approaches to the study of gravity currents, and in so doing rapidly to improve our understanding of these important flows.
| Original language | English |
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| Title of host publication | In: Particulate gravity currents, International Association of Sedimentologists (eds. McCaffrey,W. D.;Kneller,B. C.;Peakall,J.), Blackwell Sciences, Oxford |
| Place of Publication | In: Particulate gravity currents, International Association of Sedimentologists (eds. McCaffrey,W. D.;Kneller,B. C.;Peakall,J.), Blackwell Sciences, Oxford |
| Pages | 1-8 |
| Number of pages | 7 |
| Publication status | Published - 2001 |
Keywords
- TURBIDITY CURRENTS
- TURBULENCE STRUCTURE
- SUSPENDED SEDIMENT
- VERTICAL STRUCTURE
- SUSPENSION FLOWS
- LIQUID FLOWS
- DEBRIS FLOWS
- DENSITY
- VELOCITY
- PREDICTION