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Main Title Merging Buoyant Jets in a Stratified Crossflow.
Author Roberts, P. J. W. ; Snyder, W. H. ;
CORP Author Georgia Inst. of Tech., Atlanta.;Environmental Protection Agency, Research Triangle Park, NC. Atmospheric Sciences Research Lab.
Year Published 1987
Report Number EPA/600/D-87/056;
Stock Number PB87-167037
Additional Subjects Outfall sewers ; Jets ; Ocean currents ; Waste disposal ; Buoyancy ; Dilution ; Height ; Diffusion ; Stratification ;
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NTIS  PB87-167037 Some EPA libraries have a fiche copy filed under the call number shown. 07/26/2022
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Abstract
Some of the results of an extensive series of experiments to study the characteristics of merging, horizontally discharged buoyant jets in a linearly density stratified current are summarized. The experiments were conducted in a towing tank to simulate conditions typical of ocean outfalls. The most important source parameter affecting dilution was found to be the buoyancy flux per unit length, b, and the effect of the current speed, u, is expressed by the ratio F = cu u/b. Dilution is unaffected by current for F < 0.1, but thereafter increases with current speed as the rise height decreases.