Turbulent plumes with internal generation of buoyancy by chemical reaction

Campbell, AN and Cardoso, SSS (2010) Turbulent plumes with internal generation of buoyancy by chemical reaction Journal of Fluid Mechanics, 655. pp. 122-151.

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Abstract

Turbulent plumes, which are seen in a wide number of industrial and natural flows, have been extensively studied; however, very little attention has been paid to plumes which have an internal mechanism for changing buoyancy. Such plumes arise in e.g. industrial chimneys, where species can react and change the density of the plume material. These plumes with chemical reaction are the focus of this study. An integral model describing the behaviour of a plume undergoing a second-order chemical reaction between a component in the plume (A) and a component in the surrounding fluid (B), which alters the buoyancy flux, is considered. The behaviour of a reactive plume is shown to depend on four dimensionless groups: the volume and momentum fluxes at the source, the parameter ϵ which indicates the additional buoyancy flux generated by the reaction and γ which is a dimensionless rate of depletion of species B. Additionally, approximate analytical solutions are sought for a reactive plume rising from a point source of buoyancy when species B is in great excess. These analytical results show excellent agreement with numerical simulations. It is also shown that the behaviour of a reactive plume in the far field is equivalent to an inert plume issuing from a virtual source downstream of the real source, and the dependence of the location of the virtual source on ϵ and γ is discussed. The effects of varying the volume flux at the source and the Morton source parameter Γ0 are further investigated by solving the full governing equations numerically. These solutions indicate that ϵ is important in determining the buoyancy generated by the reaction, and the length scale over which this reaction occurs depends on γ when γ > 1. It is also shown that when the dimensionless buoyancy ϵ < − 1, the reaction can cause the plume to collapse.

Item Type:	Article
Divisions :	Faculty of Engineering and Physical Sciences > Chemical and Process Engineering
Authors :	Campbell, AN and Cardoso, SSS
Date :	25 July 2010
DOI :	10.1017/S0022112010000728
Copyright Disclaimer :	COPYRIGHT: © Cambridge University Press 2010. Reprinted with permission.
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Depositing User :	Symplectic Elements
Date Deposited :	05 Oct 2012 10:29
Last Modified :	02 Apr 2020 11:50
URI:	http://epubs.surrey.ac.uk/id/eprint/714178

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