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Table 1 Comparison of numerically and experimentally measured front velocity

From: High-resolution simulations of turbidity currents

	Exp 1	Exp 2	Exp 3
Re	16,850	15,000	35,000
N	3.66	2.39	2.77
v _s	0.001	0.0046	0.00046
(U _e − U _s)/U _e	14%	− 11%	16%

Data from Snow and Sutherland (2014). The experimentally measured and numerically computed front velocities are denoted as U _e and U _s respectively

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