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Bubble plumes in stratified environments

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  12 April 2006

Trevor J. Mcdougall
Trevor J. Mcdougall
Affiliation:
Department of Applied Mathematics and Theoretical Physics, University of Cambridge
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Abstract

This paper is concerned with the behaviour of buoyant plumes driven by a source of bubbles. It is shown experimentally that, when a bubble plume rises through a stratified environment, fluid can be transported vertically for some distance and then some of this fluid can leave the plume and spread out horizontally at its own density level. A simple plume model which regards the plume as a single entity is discussed in order to make a first assessment of the effects of gas expansion and bubble slip velocity in this stratified case. However, the experiments reveal a more complicated plume structure in which the bubbles remain in the centre part of the plume, and only the outer part of the plume spreads out into the environment at certain levels. On the basis of these observations a double-plume model is proposed which regards the plume as being composed of two parts: an inner circular plume (which contains all the bubbles of gas) and an outer annular plume.

Type
Research Article
Information
Journal of Fluid Mechanics , Volume 85 , Issue 4 , 27 April 1978 , pp. 655 - 672
Copyright
© 1978 Cambridge University Press

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