Dr. Dai’s Selected Publications
2024
The flow
within the head of a gravity current. Journal of Fluid Mechanics, 997, A42.
On
the propagation of planar gravity currents into a stratified ambient.
Physics of Fluids, 36, 036601.
2023
Energy
balances for the collision of gravity currents of equal strengths. Journal
of Fluid Mechanics, 959, A20.
Gravity
currents from a contant inflow on unbounded uniform slopes. Journal of
Hydraulic Research, 61:6, 880-892.
2022
On the merging and splitting processes in the lobe-and-cleft structure
at a gravity current head. Journal of Fluid Mechanics,
930, A6.
2021
Boussinesq
and non-Boussinesq gravity currents propagating on unbounded uniform slopes in
the deceleration phase. Journal of Fluid Mechanics, 917, A23.
Gravity currents propagating
at the base of a linearly stratified ambient. Physics of Fluids, 33,
066601.
2020
Experiments
on gravity currents propagating on unbounded uniform slopes. Environmental
Fluid Mechanics, 20, 1637-1662.
Experiments
on two-layer stratified gravity currents in the slumping phase. Journal of
Hydraulic Research, 58:5, 831-844.
2018
High-resolution simulations of unstable
cylindrical gravity currents undergoing wandering and splitting motions in a
rotating system. Physics of Fluids, 30, 026601.
2017
Experiments
on two-layer density-stratified inertial gravity currents. Physical Review
Fluids, 2, 073802.
On the formation of coherent vortices
beneath nonbreaking free-propagating surface waves. Journal of Physical
Oceanography, 47(3), 533-543.
2016
High-resolution
simulations of cylindrical gravity currents in a rotating system. Journal
of Fluid Mechanics, 806, 71-101.
High-resolution
simulations of non-Boussinesq downslope gravity currents in the acceleration
phase. Physics of Fluids, 28, 026602.
2015
High-resolution
simulations of downslope gravity currents in the acceleration phase.
Physics of Fluids, 27, 076602.
On
the instability of a buoyancy-driven downflow. Dynamics of Atmospheres and
Oceans, 71, 98-107.
Thermal theory for non-Boussinesq
gravity currents propagating on inclined boundaries. Journal of Hydraulic
Engineering, 141(1), 06014021.
2014
On
Langmuir circulation in shallow waters. Journal of Fluid Mechanics, 743,
141-169.
Non-Boussinesq
gravity currents propagating on different bottom slopes. Journal of Fluid
Mechanics, 741, 658-680.
2013
Experiments
on gravity currents propagating on different bottom slopes. Journal of
Fluid Mechanics, 731, 117-141.
Power-law
for gravity currents on slopes in the deceleration phase. Dynamics of
Atmospheres and Oceans, 63, 94-102.
Modeling
deltaic progradation constrained by a moving sediment source. Journal of
Hydraulic Research, 51(3), 284-292.
Gravity
currents propagating on sloping boundaries. Journal of Hydraulic
Engineering, 139(6), 593-601.
2012
Gravity
currents from instantaneous sources down a slope. Journal of Hydraulic
Engineering, 138(3), 237-246.