Research Catalog

Title

Recent research advances in the fluid mechanics of turbulent jets and plumes / edited by P.A. Davies and M.J. Valente Neves.

Publication

Dordrecht ; Boston : Kluwer Academic, [1994], ©1994.

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Additional Authors

• Davies, P. A.
• Valente Neves, M. J. (M. Jorge)
• North Atlantic Treaty Organization. Scientific Affairs Division.
• NATO Advanced Research Workshop on Recent Research Advances in the Fluid Mechanics of Turbulent Jets and Plumes (1993 : Viana do Castelo, Portugal)

Description

xviii, 514 pages : illustrations, maps; 25 cm.

Series Statement

NATO ASI series. Series E, Applied sciences ; vol. 255

Uniform Title

NATO ASI series. Series E, Applied sciences ; no. 255.

Subjects

• Plumes (Fluid dynamics) > Congresses
• Jets > Fluid dynamics > Congresses
• Turbulence > Congresses

Note

• "Published in cooperation with NATO Scientific Affairs Division."
• "Proceedings of the NATO Advanced Research Workshop on Recent Research Advances in the Fluid Mechanics of Turbulent Jets and Plumes, Viana do Castelo, Portugal June 28-July 2, 1993"--T.p. verso.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

• Professor Darryl E. Metzger -- Transition from jet plume dilution to ambient turbulent mixing / E. John List and Regina Dugan -- The effect of ambient turbulence on jet mixing / Steven J. Wright -- The plane submerged horizontal buoyant jet / P. B. Angelidis and N. E. Kotsovinos -- Lagrangian scaling of turbulent jets and plumes with dominant eddies / Vincent H. Chu -- Numerical simulation of line puffs / Joseph H. W. Lee and Wolfgang Rodi -- Similarity and self-similarity in the motion of thermals and puffs / B. R. Morton, K. C. Nguyen and R. W. Cresswell -- Thermal-saline bubble plumes / R. E. Baddour -- Experiments on negatively buoyant jets, with and without cross-flow / W. R. Lindberg -- Behaviour of a buoyant surface jet in a crossflow / M. J. Valente Neves -- Shallow jets / G. H. Jirka -- Growth of a round jet, under local Reynolds number gradients / Panos N. Papanicolaou and Morteza Gharib -- A discrete vortex model of a 2-D turbulent jet / R. J. Perkins and I. A. Joia --
• Plume entrainment in stratified flows / J. M. Redondo and C. Yague -- Laboratory and numerical experiments on the dilution of buoyant surface plumes / Ole Petersen -- Numerical modelling of jets and plumes - a civil engineering perspective / Torben Larsen -- Prediction of mean and fluctuating scalar fields in buoyant jet with cross-flow problems / A. D. Gosman, R. Liu and J. J. McGuirk -- Numerical implementation of second moment closures and application to turbulent jets / D. Laurence and O. Simonin -- Embedded streamwise vorticity in an axisymmetric jet / K. N. Saini, D. P. Georgiou and D. T. Tsahalis -- Atmospheric jets and plumes / J. C. R. Hunt -- An IBL experiment associated with air pollution transport and diffusion over the Athens area / H. D. Kambezidis -- Downwash of plumes in the vicinity of buildings: a wind-tunnel study / William H. Snyder -- Turbulent plumes, thermals and convection in oceans / H. J. S. Fernando, P. A. Davies, B. A. Ayotte, L. A. Mofor and C. Y. Ching --
• An integral model of a liquid CO[subscript 2] jet discharge into a deep stratified ocean with horizontal currents / Mills Soldate, Gilbert R. Stegen and Kathleen Cole -- Entrainment/detrainment along river plumes / T. A. McClimans -- On the influence of background rotation on turbulent jets / D. Etling and H. J. S. Fernando -- Laboratory studies of jets in rotating and stratified fluids / D. S. McGuinness, X. Zhang and D. L. Boyer -- Airborne remote sensing observations of topographic steering of cooling water discharges into coastal and estuarine waters / L. A. Mofor and P. A. Davies -- Jets and plumes and ocean outfall design / P. J. W. Roberts -- The behaviour of merging buoyant jets / M. J. Davidson, D. A. Papps and I. R. Wood -- Mixing tubes for improving dilution at small outfalls / James J. Sharp -- Entrainment from a buoyant surface layer created by an under baffle wall-jet / R. Burrows, K. H. M. Ali and M. Crapper.

ISBN

0792326997 (alk. paper)

LCCN

94000684

OCLC

• 29670794
• ocm29670794

Owning Institutions

Columbia University Libraries