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Divided discharges for divided flows

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  26 April 2006

Ronald Smith
Ronald Smith
Affiliation:
Department of Applied Mathematics and Theoretical Physics, University of Cambridge, Silver Street, Cambridge CB3 9EW, UK
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Abstract

An effluent outlet within thirty channel breadths upstream of a branching in a river can lead to high shoreline pollution levels along one of the branches, or near the tip of the central region. This paper identifies an optimal splitting of a steady discharge that minimizes the shoreline pollution.

Type
Research Article
Information
Journal of Fluid Mechanics , Volume 202 , May 1989 , pp. 499 - 514
Copyright
© 1989 Cambridge University Press

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