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Laminar plume interactions

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  29 March 2006

Luciano Pera and
Benjamin Gebhart
Luciano Pera
Affiliation:
FIAT Direzione Ricerca, Turin, Italy
Benjamin Gebhart
Affiliation:
Sibley School of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, Cornell University, Ithaca, New York 14853
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Abstract

Interactions between laminar thermal natural convection plumes generated by line and concentrated heat sources were experimentally investigated with a Mach-Zehnder interferometer. Adjacent plane plumes were found to interact more strongly than axisymmetric plumes a t the same spacing. These flows with nominally free boundaries were also found to be affected by nearby surfaces which interfered with the supply of entrainment fluid. Several types of interference with plume entrainment were investigated. The nature of the interacting flows suggests a model which is successful in interpreting the mechanism. An application of the effects of plume interaction is discussed.

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Research Article
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Journal of Fluid Mechanics , Volume 68 , Issue 2 , 25 March 1975, pp. 259 - 271
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© 1975 Cambridge University Press

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