Turbulent plumes in stratified environments: A review of recent work

NB Kaye - Atmosphere-ocean, 2008 - Taylor & Francis
This paper reviews recent developments in the theoretical modelling of Boussinesq
turbulent plumes in both stratified and unstratified quiescent environments. The review …

Basic convective element: Bubble or plume? A historical review

JI Yano - Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics, 2014 - acp.copernicus.org
During the 1950s and 1960s, when intensive investigations on atmospheric moist
convection were launched, two possibilities were identified for the basic element of moist …

Results of the eruptive column model inter-comparison study

A Costa, YJ Suzuki, M Cerminara, BJ Devenish… - Journal of Volcanology …, 2016 - Elsevier
This study compares and evaluates one-dimensional (1D) and three-dimensional (3D)
numerical models of volcanic eruption columns in a set of different inter-comparison …

Energy-consistent entrainment relations for jets and plumes

M Van Reeuwijk, J Craske - Journal of Fluid Mechanics, 2015 - cambridge.org
Energy-consistent entrainment relations for jets and plumes Page 1 J. Fluid Mech. (2015),
vol. 782, pp. 333–355. c Cambridge University Press 2015 This is an Open Access article …

Classical plume theory: 1937–2010 and beyond

GR Hunt, TS Van den Bremer - IMA journal of applied …, 2011 - academic.oup.com
Develo** a theoretical description of turbulent plumes, the likes of which may be seen
rising above industrial chimneys, is a daunting thought. Plumes are ubiquitous on a wide …

Energy dispersion in turbulent jets. Part 1. Direct simulation of steady and unsteady jets

J Craske, M van Reeuwijk - Journal of Fluid Mechanics, 2015 - cambridge.org
We study the physics of unsteady turbulent jets using direct numerical simulation (DNS) by
introducing an instantaneous step change (both up and down) in the source momentum flux …

Dynamical variability of axisymmetric buoyant plumes

A Ezzamel, P Salizzoni, GR Hunt - Journal of Fluid Mechanics, 2015 - cambridge.org
We present experimental measurements conducted on freely propagating, turbulent, steady
thermal air plumes. Three plumes are studied with differing source conditions, ranging from …

Direct and large-eddy simulations of a pure thermal plume

MV Pham, F Plourde, KS Doan - Physics of Fluids, 2007 - pubs.aip.org
A turbulent natural convection flow (Gr= 2.2× 10 10) arising from a heated and finite size
source in a quiescent and infinite environment was numerically investigated by means of …

Highly buoyant bent-over plumes in a boundary layer

A Tohidi, NB Kaye - Atmospheric Environment, 2016 - Elsevier
Highly buoyant plumes, such as wildfire plumes, in low to moderate wind speeds have initial
trajectories that are steeper than many industrial waste plumes. They will rise further into the …

General solutions of the plume equations: towards synthetic plumes and fountains

NH Wise, GR Hunt - Journal of Fluid Mechanics, 2023 - cambridge.org
Previous mathematical models of quasi-steady turbulent plumes and fountains have
described the flow that results from a prescribed input of buoyancy. We offer a new …