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The incident internal-wave ray has equation $z=-rx$. Intersecting it with the bottom $z=-H_0+sx$ givesIts distance to the slope is consequentlyThe subcritically reflected ray rises through the same vertical distance at angle $\theta$, so its next free-surface reflection is at

On the first leg, viscous attenuation of an internal-wave beam multiplies the energy density by $e^{-2k\ell /\mathrm{Re}}$. The bottom reflection multiplies it by ${\gamma }^2$ and changes the wavenumber to $\gamma k$. Since the corresponding Reynolds number is $\mathrm{Re}/{\gamma }^2$, attenuation on the second leg contributes $e^{-2{\gamma }^{3}k\ell /\mathrm{Re}}$. Ignoring boundary-layer enhancement as requested,

The shallow-water approximation requires $h/L\ll 1$, a nearly hydrostatic pressure, negligible vertical acceleration, and approximately depth-independent horizontal velocity, concentration, and density. The large Reynolds number allows viscous stress to be neglected away from thin boundary layers, while the deep ambient is taken to remain stationary.

For unit channel width, volume conservation, chemical conservation, and mass conservation are respectivelyandEntrained ambient fluid contains no chemical and enters with density ${\rho }_0$; detrained fluid carries the local concentration and density. The ambient has no horizontal momentum, whereas detrained fluid carries horizontal momentum $\rho u$ per unit volume. The depth-integrated momentum conservation law is thereforeso $M=-\rho u{w}_d$.

The Reynolds number isWhen it is large, viscosity is negligible in most of the flow, but the inviscid outer solution cannot generally satisfy the no-slip boundary condition at a rigid wall. A thin boundary layer resolves this mismatch: tangential gradients remain of outer scale $\mathcal{L}$, normal gradients have the much shorter scale $\delta$, and the small viscous coefficient is offset by $u_{yy}=O(\mathcal{U}/{\delta }^2)$. Matching a viscous inner solution to an inviscid outer solution retains the leading viscous effects without solving the full equations uniformly everywhere.

At negligible Reynolds number, the Stokes equations and their no-slip boundary conditions are linear in velocity. Scaling or superposing a prescribed rigid translation therefore scales or superposes the resulting stress and total hydrodynamic force. Hence, for a fixed rod orientation,The minus sign records that viscous drag opposes motion, and $\mathbf{R}$ is the translational hydrodynamic resistance matrix.

Let $a$ denote the bubble size, $U$ its speed, and $\mathrm{Re}=Ua/\nu \gg 1$ the Reynolds number. Outside a thin boundary layer, inertia dominates and the flow is an irrotational flow with velocity scale $U$ and strain scale $U/a$. Its viscous dissipation has orderin three dimensions.

The boundary-layer thickness isFor a clean bubble the stress-free boundary condition prescribes tangential stress rather than tangential velocity. The outer flow already has tangential strain of order $U/a$, so cancelling that stress requires a velocity correction of onlynot a correction of order $U$. Its gradient remains $O(U/a)$, and its boundary-layer dissipation iswhich is asymptotically smaller.

In steady translation, the drag power $DU$ balances viscous dissipation. The leading estimate therefore follows from the known outer flow alone:in three dimensions. This is the dissipation estimate for high-Reynolds-number bubble drag.

Inertia dominates viscosity whenequivalently when the imposed root-mean-square velocity gradient satisfies ${\tau }^{-1}\ll t_0^{-1}$. In the inertial-capillary regime,The corresponding Reynolds number isThe geometry is therefore not fixed as the stirring rate changes. Slower stirring permits much larger domains, and the growth of ${\Lambda }^2$ more than offsets the reduction of $U/\Lambda$. This is why the inertial regime occurs at low imposed velocity gradient in this self-adjusting coarsening problem.

Let the fixed current volume per unit channel width beA suitable high-Reynolds number deep-ambient gravity-current front condition iswhere the order-one Froude number $\mathrm{Fr}$ records the selected front closure. In the dilute limit the mixture's reduced gravity iswith ambient and carrier-fluid density ${\rho }_a$.

The well-mixed particle volume of species $i$ is $V_0{\varphi }_i$. Its deposition rate through the base of length $L$ is $L{\hat{W}}_i{\varphi }_i$, where ${\hat{W}}_i<0$. The resulting gravity-current box model is thereforeIt conserves fluid volume while suspended particle volume, and therefore the driving buoyancy, decreases by deposition.

Porous-media flow is fluid motion through an interconnected pore space. At small pore-scale Reynolds number, its volume-averaged velocity is commonly governed by Darcy's law.

A Squire mode has zero wall-normal velocity and nonzero wall-normal vorticity, satisfying the homogeneous Squire equation. For real base velocity, positive finite Reynolds number, and zero boundary terms,for a nontrivial mode in a finite channel with no-slip walls. This follows by multiplying the homogeneous equation by $\overline{\eta }$, integrating by parts and taking the real part. Such modes are damped even when the coupled velocity-vorticity system can exhibit transient growth from non-normal modes.

A high-Reynolds number long-wave mode near a wall has a viscous layer of thickness $\delta =(\alpha R{)}^{-1/3}$, an order-one region following the base profile, and a pressure-decay region of thickness $1/\alpha$. The lower Airy function solution fixes velocity displacement and fluid pressure. The middle Rayleigh equation for inviscid shear flow transports these to the outer constant-velocity region. Matching its decaying pressure produces an Airy wall-layer matching determinant. For order-one amplitudes, constant leading middle pressure requires ${\alpha }^2\ll \delta$; the distinguished balance $\alpha \sim \delta$ gives $\alpha \sim R^{-1/4}$.

A viscous boundary layer is a boundary layer next to a surface in which viscosity remains important even when the outer flow has a large Reynolds number. It reconciles the outer inviscid velocity with the no-slip boundary condition.