A study of inflow characteristics in a stratified fluid
Abstract
A study was made of the horizontal surface discharge into an ambient body of water in a channel. The inflow densities were either lighter or heavier than that of the ambient, and the vertical density distributions of the ambient were either uniform or stratified. The experiments were designed to discover the relationship between the flow characteristics, such as current speed, frontogenesis, density and velocity distributions with an inflow densimetric Froude number and defined in an appropriate manner. Although emphasis was placed on the experimental aspect, a combined analytical, numerical and experimental approach was undertaken to achieve further understanding of the inflow dynamics. The numerical aspect was based on a nonlinear initial boundary value problem, using the full Navier-Stokes and diffusion equations.
- Publication:
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Ph.D. Thesis
- Pub Date:
- 1978
- Bibcode:
- 1978PhDT........91L
- Keywords:
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- Environment Effects;
- Stratified Flow;
- Temperature Effects;
- Boundary Value Problems;
- Environmental Monitoring;
- Navier-Stokes Equation;
- Fluid Mechanics and Heat Transfer