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Turbulent buoyant convection from a source in a confined region

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  19 April 2006

P. C. Manins
P. C. Manins
Affiliation:
CSIRO Division of Atmospheric Physics, Station Street, Aspendale, Victoria, Australia
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Abstract

An extension of the model first proposed by Baines & Turner (1969) is derived with careful attention to the conditions required for its application. The most important of these are that the Prandtl number ν/k is of order unity or greater, the ratio of the length L to depth H of the region is greater than about 1·2 for the two-dimensional region considered and R is so large that R [gsim ] L/H and R [Gt ] 1/α. The characteristic group \[ R\equiv \alpha^{\frac{2}{3}}F_0^{\frac{1}{3}}H/\nu. \]R2 is a Grashof number based on the source strength F0 of the buoyant convection which is modelled using turbulent plume theory and the entrainment constant α, the ratio of inflow velocity across the edge of the plume to mean local plume velocity. The conditions on R ensure that the source of buoyant convection is the dominant transportive mechanism in the region and the restrictions on the aspect ratio ensure that there is clear separation between the passive motions in the bulk of the region and the intense highly confined buoyant convection.

The manner in which the convective fluid recirculates to become part of the passive interior is studied and shown to be controlled by the same dynamics as fluid intrusion into a stably stratified environment.

Several new solutions are obtained, including cases of steady conditions involving only one source.

Type
Research Article
Information
Journal of Fluid Mechanics , Volume 91 , Issue 4 , 27 April 1979 , pp. 765 - 781
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© 1979 Cambridge University Press

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