Topographic Effects in Stratified Flows

Peter G. Baines is an Honorary Senior Fellow in the Department of Infrastructure Engineering at the University of Melbourne. He is a winner of the Priestley Medal and a Fellow and first President of the Australian Meteorological and Oceanographic Society. He is currently Secretary of the Royal Society of Victoria.

• 1. Background; 2. Nonlinear single-layer flow: classical hydraulics; 3. Nonlinear single-layer flow past obstacles – jumps, bores and wave dispersion; 4. Two-layer flow with jumps and topography; 5. Two-layer and stratified flow through contractions; 6. Exchange flows; 7. Gravity currents, downslope and anabatic flows, and stratified hydraulic jumps; 8. Waves in stratified fluids; 9. The stability of stratified flows; 10. Stratified flow over two-dimensional obstacles – linear and near-linear theory; 11. Stratified flow over two-dimensional obstacles – nonlinear hydraulic models with applications; 12. Stratified flow over three-dimensional topography – linear theory; 13. Three-dimensional stratified flow over finite obstacles; 14. Flow over complex and realistic terrain in the atmosphere and ocean; 15. Applications to practical modelling of flow over complex terrain; References; Index.