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The coalescence of adjacent turbulent plumes in a stratified and unstratified environment
Plume merger has been the subject of a number of recent theoretical studies that employ turbulent plume theory (including Taylor’s entrainment hypothesis) with ambient fluid external to the plume described usi...
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Effect of Buoyant Convection on the Spreading and Draining of Porous Media Gravity Currents along a Permeability Jump
We investigate theoretically the impact of adding convective dissolution to the sharp interface problem of gravity current propagation along a slo** permeability jump. Three different dissolution modes are e...
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Open AccessCooling tower plume abatement and plume modeling: a review
Visible plumes above wet cooling towers are of great concern due to the associated aesthetic and environmental impacts. The parallel path wet/dry cooling tower is one of the most commonly used approaches for p...
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Tailwater gravity currents and their connection to perfectly subcritical flow: laboratory experiments and shallow-water and direct numerical solutions
We report upon a series of laboratory experiments and complementary (two-dimensional) direct numerical simulations that explore the lock release of a fixed volume of dense fluid into a two-layer density-strati...
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The Effect of Sudden Permeability Changes in Porous Media Filling Box Flows
We report upon experimental and analytical investigations of filling box flows in non-uniform porous media characterized by a sudden change in permeability. The porous medium consists of two layers separated b...
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Filling Box Flows in an Axisymmetric Porous Medium
We present an analytical solution for buoyancy-driven “filling box” flows in axisymmetric porous media having closed bottom and side boundaries. The flow consists first and foremost of a descending, point sour...
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Axisymmetric gravity currents in two-layer density-stratified media
Numerous studies have considered the flow of a rectilinear, high Reynolds number, Boussinesq gravity current through a two-layer stratified ambient, however, far less is known concerning the analogue axisymmet...
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Erratum to: Gravity currents in two-layer stratified media
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Gravity currents in two-layer stratified media
An analytical, experimental and numerical study of boundary gravity currents propagating through a two-layer stratified ambient of finite vertical extent is presented. Gravity currents are supposed to originat...
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Applying the discrete vortex method in environmental fluid mechanics: A study of the time-averaged near wake behind a circular cylinder
This work illustrates the discrete vortex method (DVM) as a tool for simulating environmental fluid mechanics problems involving transport in the wake of a bluff body. The DVM was used to model both the long-t...