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Laminar momentum jets in a stratified fluid

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  29 March 2006

E. J. List
E. J. List
Affiliation:
W. M. Keck Laboratory of Hydraulics and Water Resources California Institute of Technology
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Abstract

Solutions are presented for creeping flows induced by two-and three-dimensional horizontal and vertical momentum jets in a linearly stratified unbounded diffusive viscous fluid. These linear problems are solved by replacing the momentum jet by a body force singularity represented by delta functions and solving the partial differential equations of motion by use of multi-dimensional Fourier transforms. The integral representations for the physical variables are evaluated by a combination of residue theory and numerical integration.

The solutions for vertical jets show the jet to be trapped within a layer of finite thickness and systems of rotors to be induced. The horizontal two-dimensional jet solution shows return flows above and below the jet and a pair of rotors. The three-dimensional horizontal jet has no return flow at finite distance and the diffusive contribution is found to be almost negligible in most situations, the primary character of the horizontal flows being given by the non-diffusive solution. Stokes's paradox is found to be non-existent in a density-stratified fluid.

Type
Research Article
Information
Journal of Fluid Mechanics , Volume 45 , Issue 3 , 15 February 1971 , pp. 561 - 574
Copyright
© 1971 Cambridge University Press

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