Open AccessFIELD STUDIES OF BUOYANT JET IN COASTAL WATERS
Author(s) -
Jeffrey P. Leighton,
Shuen-Wei Scott Tu
Publication year - 1986
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.v20.191
Subject(s) - bathymetry , jet (fluid) , geology , mixing (physics) , oceanography , field (mathematics) , water mass , waves and shallow water , mechanics , physics , mathematics , quantum mechanics , pure mathematics
Studies were made on a surface buoyant jet from a coastal power plant. The cooling water discharges into shallow waters of irregular bottom topography forming a partially enclosed embayment that connects to the open ocean. Near field mixing was found to be influenced by bottom bathymetry, lateral confinement and a large obstruction. Surface centerline temperature decay, bottom separation and the heat and mass distribution within the embayment were analyzed.