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Forced plumes

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  28 March 2006

B. R. Morton
B. R. Morton
Affiliation:
Department of Mathematics, University of Manchester
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Abstract

This paper describes an investigation of the turbulent forced plumes generated by steady release of mass, momentum and buoyancy from a source situated in an extensive region of uniform or stably stratified fluid. The treatment, which is an extension of earlier work on buoyant plumes, also brings out the relationship between the jet and the Plume as special cases of forced plumes.

The analysis shows that the behaviour of a forced plume from a source of finite size which delivers buoyancy, mass and momentum can in a uniform environment be related to that from a virtual point source of buoyancy and momentum only, and a treatment is given for the latter type of forced plume. When the environment is weakly stratified it is inferred that forced plumes can be related to point definitely; but when the environment is stably stratified, increasing the release of mass and momentum from a given source of buoyancy has the effect at first of reducing the total height of the plume, and only for very large flux of momentum does the height increase again, without limit. A description is given for the behaviour of vertical jets in a stably stratified environment, and for forced plumes of fluid with negative buoyancy.

Type
Research Article
Information
Journal of Fluid Mechanics , Volume 5 , Issue 1 , January 1959 , pp. 151 - 163
Copyright
© 1959 Cambridge University Press

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