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Main Title Artificial Mixing of Stratified Fluids Formed by Salt and Heat in a Laboratory Reservoir.
Author Brush, J, Lucien M. ;
CORP Author Rutgers-The State Univ., New Brunswick, N.J. Water Resources Research Inst.
Year Published 1970
Report Number OWRR-B-024-NJ; 00632,; B-024-NJ(1)
Stock Number PB-195 308
Additional Subjects ( Water storage ; Reservoir fluids) ; ( Reservoir fluids ; Mixing) ; Stratification ; Lakes ; Water quality ; Laboratories ; Interfaces ; Thermal properties ; Cooling ; Salt water ; Fresh water ;
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NTIS  PB-195 308 Some EPA libraries have a fiche copy filed under the call number shown. 07/26/2022
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Abstract
Destratification of a two-layer reservoir by pumping fluid from one layer and jetting the discharge into the other was studied in the laboratory. The fluid layers were formed by hotwater - coldwater and saltwater - freshwater combinations. For a particular range of Richardson no., thermally stratified fluids mixed more readily than those formed by saline solutions indicating a greater interfacial entrainment rate. Although these differences may be influenced by molecular diffusivity as sugged by Turner, it is felt that there is at least one alternate explanation involving local viscous effects near the interface. The results of the study show agreement with previous laboratory investigations involving different geometric arrangements, and with two field studies of mixing in thermally stratified lakes. Insufficient field evidence exists for establishing precise model-prototype relationships, but the overwhelming dominance of the Richardson no. (or densiometric Froude no.) as a dynamic control is evident. (WRSIC abstract)