Entrainment and mixing in unsteady gravity currents

L Ottolenghi, C Adduce, R Inghilesi… - Journal of Hydraulic …, 2016 - Taylor & Francis
Entrainment and mixing in lock-exchange gravity currents are investigated by large eddy
simulations. Nine cases are analysed, varying the initial excess density driving the motion …

Dynamics of the head of gravity currents

HIS Nogueira, C Adduce, E Alves… - Environmental Fluid …, 2014 - Springer
The present work experimentally investigates the dynamics of unsteady gravity currents
produced by lock-release of a saline mixture into a fresh water tank. Seven different …

Analysis of lock-exchange gravity currents over smooth and rough beds

HIS Nogueira, C Adduce, E Alves… - Journal of hydraulic …, 2013 - Taylor & Francis
Gravity currents produced by full-depth lock-release of saline water into a fresh water tank
are studied focusing on the influence of the initial density of the saline mixture in the lock …

Mixing in lock-release gravity currents propagating up a slope

L Ottolenghi, C Adduce, R Inghilesi, F Roman… - Physics of …, 2016 - pubs.aip.org
Lock-exchange gravity currents propagating up a slope are investigated by large eddy
simulations, focusing on the entrainment and mixing processes occurring between the …

Dynamics of gravity currents flowing up a slope and implications for entrainment

MC De Falco, L Ottolenghi, C Adduce - Journal of Hydraulic …, 2020 - ascelibrary.org
The dynamics of lock-release gravity currents flowing up a slo** bottom are investigated
by laboratory experiments. Both full-depth and partial-depth gravity currents are analyzed …

Experiments on gravity currents propagating on different bottom slopes

A Dai - Journal of Fluid Mechanics, 2013 - cambridge.org
Experiments for gravity currents generated from an instantaneous buoyancy source
propagating on an inclined boundary in the slope angle range, the gravity current head …

Laboratory investigation on internal solitary waves interacting with a uniform slope

G La Forgia, C Adduce, F Falcini - Advances in Water Resources, 2018 - Elsevier
Internal solitary waves (ISWs) propagating in a two layer stratified fluid system are studied by
laboratory experiments through the standard lock-release method. We investigated the …

Analysis of the flow in gravity currents propagating up a slope

L Ottolenghi, C Adduce, F Roman, V Armenio - Ocean Modelling, 2017 - Elsevier
Lock-release gravity currents flowing up a slope are investigated by Large Eddy
Simulations. The angle between the bottom boundary and the horizontal direction, θ, and …

On the dynamics of quasi-steady gravity currents flowing up a slope

MC De Falco, C Adduce, ME Negretti… - Advances in Water …, 2021 - Elsevier
Quasi-steady gravity currents propagating first on a horizontal and then up a slo**
boundary are investigated by means of theoretical analysis and laboratory experiments. The …

Gravity currents flowing upslope: Laboratory experiments and shallow-water simulations

V Lombardi, C Adduce, G Sciortino, M La Rocca - Physics of Fluids, 2015 - pubs.aip.org
This paper investigates the dynamics of lock-release gravity currents propagating upslope
by laboratory experiments and shallow-water simulations. Both the interface between the …