Stably stratified flow and dense gas dispersion : based on the proceedings of a conference organized by the Institute of Mathematics and its Applications and held in Chester, April 1986

A review of some mixing experiments relevant to dense gas dispersion some measurements of turbulence length scales in the stably-stratified surface layer observations of internal gravity waves in the stably-stratified atmospheric boundary layer turbulence, waves and entrainment near density inversion layers development of density discontinuities in a turbulent fluid similarity solutions for two-dimensional steady gravity currents the spreading and mixing of a dense cloud in still air methods of validating models of dense gas dispersion analysis of Thorney Island data - variability and box models a model for gravity-dominated dispersion of dense-gas clouds recent developments on the FEM3 and SLAB atmospheric dispersion models length scales in stably stratified turbulent flows and their use in turbulence models the use of a three dimensional model for simulating Thorney Island field trials finite element calculations of transient dense gas dispersion stably stratified free surface shear layers with internal hydraulic jumps second-moment modelling of free buoyant shear flows - a comparison of parabolic and elliptic solutions.