Density Effect on Round Turbulent Hypersaline Fountain
Publication: Journal of Hydraulic Engineering
Volume 135, Issue 1
Abstract
An experiment was conducted to examine a round hypersaline fountain. When the discharge was turbulent, and for large densimetric Froude numbers, the results have indicated that the maximum height of the fountain , in a quiescent and homogeneous surrounding, was a function of relative density difference. The height decreased from 3.06 at to 2.59 at . The observed density effects on the height of the fountain have indicated that the Boussinesq’s approximation was valid when the relative density difference was typically less than 0.003.
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Acknowledgments
The writers would like to thank the anonymous reviewers of this technical note for their constructive comments and suggestions. The research was supported by the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada.
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Journal of Hydraulic Engineering
Volume 135 • Issue 1 • January 2009
Pages: 57 - 59
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Received: Jun 1, 2007
Accepted: May 9, 2008
Published online: Jan 1, 2009
Published in print: Jan 2009
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