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FLUID MODELING SIMULATION OF STACK-TIP DOWNWASH
Citation:
Snyder, W. AND R.E. Lawson, Jr. FLUID MODELING SIMULATION OF STACK-TIP DOWNWASH. U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, Washington, D.C., EPA/600/J-92/129 (NTIS PB92166644), 1991.
Description:
Downwash of neutrally buoyant effluent on the immediate lee side of a circular stack was modeled using a wind tunnel simulation. oth subcritical and supercritical turbulent flows were simulated, where the criticality refers to Reynolds numbers below and above the critical Reynolds number, Rec 2x10 5), where the boundary layer on the cylinder becomes turbulent and the drag coefficient drops sharply. ubcritical Reynolds numbers are typically attained by small-diameter stacks in relatively light winds; supercritical ones are attained by large-diameter stacks in strong winds. he downwash characteristics differ markedly in the two regimes. n the subcritical regime, downwash begins when the ratio of effluent speed to wind speed (W/U) is about 1.5; in the supercritical regime, downwash begins at W/U=1.1. The downwash in the immediate lee of the stack at w/U = 0.3 extends to 7 diameters down from the stack top in the subcritical regime and to 4 diameters down in the super-critical regime. raphs and simple formulas are presented describing the plume trajectories and plume widths for 0.3 W/U < 2.0 and for downwind distances from the source to 30 stack diameters. ractical recommendations are made for modeling the downwash of neutrally buoyant plumes.
