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.