Unsteady turbulent buoyant plumes

Lagrangian simulation of the unsteady near field dynamics of planar buoyant plumes

The unsteady dynamics of planar plumes is investigated numerically with particular emphasis on the pulsating instability characterizing the source ~nozzle! near field. This instability manifests itself as the periodic shedding of vortical structures from the nozzle. The Lagrangian Transport Element Method is used to provide high resolution two-dimensional simulations of the unaveraged variable ...

LIF Measurement of the Diluting Effect of Surface Waves on Turbulent Buoyant Plumes

In this paper, the diluting effect of surface waves on a buoyant plume has been measured using a Laser Induced Fluorescence (LIF) technique. The resulting time-averaged, full field concentration maps have allowed quantification of enhanced mixing due to surface waves as well as measurement of other plume parameters.

A finite-difference analysis of turbulent, axisymmetric, buoyant jets and plumes

Buoyant turbulent mixing in shear layers

Buoyancy effects in unstably stratified mixing layers express themselves through gravity currents of heavy fluid which propagate in an ambient lighter fluid. These currents are encountered in numerous geophysical flows, industrial safety and environmental protection issues [1] . During transition to turbulence a strong distortion of the separating interface between regions containing ‘heavy’ or...

Buoyant plumes and vortex rings in an autocatalytic chemical reaction.

Buoyant plumes, evolving free of boundary constraints, may develop well-defined mushroom-shaped heads. In conventional plumes, overturning flow in the head entrains less buoyant fluid from the surroundings as the head rises, robbing the plume of its driving force. We consider here a new type of plume in which the source of buoyancy is an autocatalytic chemical reaction. The reaction occurs at a...