Open AccessEXPERIMENTAL STUDY OF THE BUOYANT SURFACE JET WITH THE PRESENCE OF BOTTOM BOUNDARY AND CROSS CURRENT
Author(s) -
Bijan Safaie
Publication year - 1980
Publication title -
proceedings of conference on coastal engineering/proceedings of ... conference on coastal engineering
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 2156-1028
pISSN - 0589-087X
DOI - 10.9753/icce.v17.166
Subject(s) - jet (fluid) , current (fluid) , mechanics , boundary (topology) , outfall , surface (topology) , environmental science , bottom water , surface water , waves and shallow water , meteorology , geology , physics , oceanography , geometry , environmental engineering , mathematics , mathematical analysis
The problem of buoyant surface jet (BSJ) is relevant from the practical standpoint to the discharge of cooling water of power plants into the receiving water bodies. The buoyant surface jet has extensively been studied by numerous investigators both theoretically and experimentally. Most studies have been concerned with the problems of BSJ discharged horizontally into a surface of a deep ambient water with or without cross current. From a practical standpoint, however, the design engineers are often confronted with the design of thermal outfalls in the coastal regions which are frequently shallow and have the boundary effects. Few investigators have studied the problem of BSJ discharged horizontally over slopping bottom into quiescent receiving water (1), (2), (4), (5), (6), and (7). However, no information on the foregoing problem with moving ambient water is available. The purpose of this paper is (a) to present the experimental results of BSJ which is discharged over slopping bottom into moving ambient water, and (b) to see the degree of error which is introduced by applying the deep water integral models to the case of a buoyant surface jet with a bottom boundary.