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Runout length of a gravity current
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Fluid mechanics
Reduced gravity
Gravity current
Gravity-current box model
Particle-laden gravity current
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The runout
length
is the limiting horizontal
distance
reached by
a
gravity current
after its
driving
buoyancy
has been exhausted or balanced by resistance.
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