Influence of Downstream Control and Limited Depth on Flow Hydrodynamics of Impinging Buoyant Jets
dc.contributor.author | Ulasir, Murat | en_US |
dc.contributor.author | Wright, Steven J. | en_US |
dc.date.accessioned | 2006-09-08T20:34:50Z | |
dc.date.available | 2006-09-08T20:34:50Z | |
dc.date.issued | 2003-06 | en_US |
dc.identifier.citation | Ulasir, Murat; Wright, Steven J.; (2003). "Influence of Downstream Control and Limited Depth on Flow Hydrodynamics of Impinging Buoyant Jets." Environmental Fluid Mechanics 3(2): 85-107. <http://hdl.handle.net/2027.42/42658> | en_US |
dc.identifier.issn | 1567-7419 | en_US |
dc.identifier.issn | 1573-1510 | en_US |
dc.identifier.uri | https://hdl.handle.net/2027.42/42658 | |
dc.description.abstract | Much study has been performed on the mixing properties of submerged, turbulent buoyant jets. It is safe to say that the problem of estimating dilution rates in vertical buoyant jets spreading in an `infinitely deep' ambient water has been more than adequately resolved by previous researchers. However, the majority of environmental applications involve discharges into ambient waters of finite depths in which a bounding surface serves to re-direct the impinging buoyant jet horizontally into a radial spreading layer. Previous research indicates that this impinging jet undergoes additional mixing before buoyancy stabilizes vertical mixing and confines the spreading layer to the vicinity of the bounding surface. Unfortunately, the conceptualization and subsequent mathematical modeling of this additional mixing phenomenon is surrounded by considerable amount of disagreement between researchers. The purpose of this study is to provide, by means of velocity and concentration profile measurements, independent experimental evidence for the existence of a critical flow state immediately downstream of the active mixing zone in the horizontally flowing, radial flow that forms after impingement. It is further shown that this critical flow state must be expressed in terms of a composite Froude Number that takes into account the possibility of a non-zero exchange layer flow. Finally, the influence of the presence of a sill-like topographic downstream control on the criticality of the radial flow immediately downstream of the active mixing zone is also investigated. | en_US |
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dc.language.iso | en_US | |
dc.publisher | Kluwer Academic Publishers; Springer Science+Business Media | en_US |
dc.subject.other | Environment | en_US |
dc.subject.other | Hydrogeology | en_US |
dc.subject.other | Meteorology/Climatology | en_US |
dc.subject.other | Oceanography | en_US |
dc.subject.other | Mechanics | en_US |
dc.subject.other | Environmental Physics | en_US |
dc.subject.other | Buoyant Jets | en_US |
dc.subject.other | Composite Froude Number | en_US |
dc.subject.other | Density Jump | en_US |
dc.subject.other | Downstream Control | en_US |
dc.subject.other | Impingement | en_US |
dc.subject.other | Non-zero Exchange Flow | en_US |
dc.title | Influence of Downstream Control and Limited Depth on Flow Hydrodynamics of Impinging Buoyant Jets | en_US |
dc.type | Article | en_US |
dc.subject.hlbsecondlevel | Physics | en_US |
dc.subject.hlbtoplevel | Science | en_US |
dc.description.peerreviewed | Peer Reviewed | en_US |
dc.contributor.affiliationum | Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, University of Michigan, Room 113 EWRE, 1351 Beal Ave, Ann Arbor, MI, 48109-2125, USA | en_US |
dc.contributor.affiliationum | Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, University of Michigan, Room 113 EWRE, 1351 Beal Ave, Ann Arbor, MI, 48109-2125, USA | en_US |
dc.contributor.affiliationumcampus | Ann Arbor | en_US |
dc.description.bitstreamurl | http://deepblue.lib.umich.edu/bitstream/2027.42/42658/1/10652_2004_Article_5096828.pdf | en_US |
dc.identifier.doi | http://dx.doi.org/10.1023/A:1022027003377 | en_US |
dc.identifier.source | Environmental Fluid Mechanics | en_US |
dc.owningcollname | Interdisciplinary and Peer-Reviewed |
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