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A horizontal buoyant flow is the flow created by a horizontally directed source of mass, momentum, and buoyancy into an ambient fluid. The horizontal direction is preserved by the existence of two stable density jumps embedding the flow, as for instance a free surface and an interface.
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Pedersen, F.B. (1986). Horizontal Buoyant Flow. In: Environmental Hydraulics: Stratified Flows. Lecture Notes on Coastal and Estuarine Studies, vol 18. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-86600-5_11
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