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The asymptotic behaviour of a starting plume

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  29 March 2006

Jason H. Middleton
Jason H. Middleton
Affiliation:
Department of Mathematics, Monash University, Clayton, Victoria 3168, Australia
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Abstract

A similarity solution is obtained for a model of the turbulent starting plume comprising a steady plume feeding mass, momentum and buoyancy into a vortex ring. Bulk equations representing the time rate of increase of ring momentum and ring buoyancy, together with equations (dependent on broad features of the ring structure) representing the velocity of propagation and time rate of circulation increase are used to determine the motion of the vortex ring. The similarity solution is found to exist only for diffuse distributions of vorticity and buoyancy within the ring. Further, the ratio of ring velocity to plume velocity, which is assumed to be constant, is found to take a value which agrees with that obtained from experimental observations.

Type
Research Article
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Journal of Fluid Mechanics , Volume 72 , Issue 4 , 23 December 1975 , pp. 753 - 771
Copyright
© 1975 Cambridge University Press

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