A buoyant plume in a rotating ambient fluid transforms into a columnar vortex (For details, see figure 7b of paper.) |
Hypopycnal current in saline ambient (fig 2) | Hypopycnal current in two-layer ambient (fig 9) | Mesopycnal current in two-layer ambient (fig 10) |
Supercritical current (fig 2) | Subcritical current (fig 5) |
Settling in fresh water (fig 3a) | Settling in salt water (fig 3b) | Resettling in fresh water (fig 3c) | Resettling in salt water (fig 3d) |
turbidity current in stratified ambient (long run-out) | saline current | turbidity current | turbidity current in stratified ambient (short run-out) | hypopycnal turbidity current |
A salt water plume injected downward into uniformly stratified fluid (for details, see figure 2 of paper) |
Gravity current shoaling on a slope (for details, see figure 2 of paper) |
Surging Breaker | Collapsing Breaker | Collapsing-Plunging Breaker | Plunging Breaker |
Plunging Breaker Close-up with Particles |
Movie showing vertical velocity of mode-2 cylindrical solitary wave launched by intrusion (Figure 5 of paper) |
Epsilon=Delta=0 (doubly symmetric) | Epsilon=0.25, Delta=0 | Epsilon=0.625, Delta=0.75 |
5cm deep intrusion | 10cm deep intrusion | 15cm deep intrusion |
narrow and wide Gaussian internal wavepacket | narrow Gaussian and wide plateau-shaped internal wavepacket |
Subcritical stratified flow over topography | Supercritical stratified flow over topography |
Epsilon=Delta=0 (doubly symmetric) | Epsilon=0.25, Delta=0 | Epsilon=0.625, Delta=0.75 |
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