15th European Turbulence Conference 2015
August 25-28th, 2015, Delft, The Netherlands
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Turbulent entrainment in jets and plumes


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Presentation:
Session: Jets and Wakes 2
Room: Room E
Session start: 15:00 Tue 25 Aug 2015

Maarten van Reeuwijk   m.vanreeuwijk@imperial.ac.uk
Affifliation: Imperial College London

John Craske   john.craske07@imperial.ac.uk
Affifliation: Imperial College London


Topics: - Thermally driven turbulence, - Jets and wakes

Abstract:

We perform direct simulation of a statistically steady jets and plume and present the value of the entrainment coefficient decomposed into 1) turbulence production; 2) buoyancy effects; and 3) deviations from self-similarity. We explain theoretically how the two cases are linked and present a generalisation valid for forced and lazy plumes.