Articles | Volume 7, issue 5
https://doi.org/10.5194/gmd-7-1945-2014
https://doi.org/10.5194/gmd-7-1945-2014
Development and technical paper
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05 Sep 2014
Development and technical paper |  | 05 Sep 2014

Direct numerical simulations of particle-laden density currents with adaptive, discontinuous finite elements

S. D. Parkinson, J. Hill, M. D. Piggott, and P. A. Allison

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