Recent Research Advances in the Fluid Mechanics of Turbulent Jets and Plumes: NATO Advanced Research Workshop on Recent Research. Series E : Applied Sciences, Vol 255
The book reviews, updates and integrates recent advances in the modelling and measurement of turbulent jets and plumes.
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Format: Hardcover, English, 514 pages |
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Table of Contents
| Professor Darryl E. Metzger | ||
| Preface | ||
| List of Participants | ||
| Transition from jet plume dilution to ambient turbulent mixing | 1 | |
| The effect of ambient turbulence on jet mixing | 13 | |
| The plane submerged horizontal buoyant jet | 29 | |
| Lagrangian scaling of turbulent jets and plumes with dominant eddies | 45 | |
| Numerical simulation of line puffs | 73 | |
| Similarity and self-similarity in the motion of thermals and puffs | 89 | |
| Thermal-saline bubble plumes | 117 | |
| Experiments on negatively buoyant jets, with and without cross-flow | 131 | |
| Behaviour of a buoyant surface jet in a crossflow | 147 | |
| Shallow jets | 155 | |
| Growth of a round jet, under local Reynolds number gradients | 177 | |
| A discrete vortex model of a 2-D turbulent jet | 191 | |
| Plume entrainment in stratified flows | 209 | |
| Laboratory and numerical experiments on the dilution of buoyant surface plumes | 223 | |
| Numerical modelling of jets and plumes - a civil engineering perspective | 237 | |
| Prediction of mean and fluctuating scalar fields in buoyant jet with cross-flow problems | 261 | |
| Numerical implementation of second moment closures and application to turbulent jets | 281 | |
| Embedded streamwise vorticity in an axisymmetric jet | 295 | |
| Atmospheric jets and plumes | 309 | |
| An IBL experiment associated with air pollution transport and diffusion over the Athens area | 335 | |
| Downwash of plumes in the vicinity of buildings: a wind-tunnel study | 343 | |
| Turbulent plumes, thermals and convection in oceans | 357 | |
| An integral model of a liquid CO[subscript 2] jet discharge into a deep stratified ocean with horizontal currents | 375 | |
| Entrainment/detrainment along river plumes | 391 | |
| On the influence of background rotation on turbulent jets | 401 | |
| Laboratory studies of jets in rotating and stratified fluids | 413 | |
| Airborne remote sensing observations of topographic steering of cooling water discharges into coastal and estuarine waters | 423 | |
| Jets and plumes and ocean outfall design | 441 | |
| The behaviour of merging buoyant jets | 465 | |
| Mixing tubes for improving dilution at small outfalls | 479 | |
| Entrainment from a buoyant surface layer created by an under baffle wall-jet | 489 | |
| Forward look | 503 | |
| Index | 509 | |
Related Book Categories
Turbulence Modeling, Experimental Turbulence, Conference Proceedings and Edited Collections



