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Buoyant plumes in a vertically sheared cross-flow
Buoyant plumes are important in a wide variety of engineering and geophysical contexts, particularly with respect to air quality and pollution considerations. They have been studied extensively both with and without the effects of a cross-flow in the ambient atmosphere. A fully comprehensible nonhyd...
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Published in: | Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society 2003-08, Vol.84 (8), p.1007 |
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Main Authors: | , , , |
Format: | Article |
Language: | English |
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Summary: | Buoyant plumes are important in a wide variety of engineering and geophysical contexts, particularly with respect to air quality and pollution considerations. They have been studied extensively both with and without the effects of a cross-flow in the ambient atmosphere. A fully comprehensible nonhydrostatic numerical model was used to investigate how plumes arising from intense heat sources at the surface interact with a cross-flow having vertical shear near the ground. As a result, plumes associated with circular heat sources in the presence of a cross-flow exhibit several interesting features, but are dominated by an embedded counter-rotating vortex pair. |
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ISSN: | 0003-0007 1520-0477 |