A numerical model of the dispersion of a dense effluent in a stream /

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Crew, Henry
Corporate Authors: Dow Chemical Company, United States. Office of Saline Water
Other Authors: Clayton, W.H (degree committee member.), Leipper, Dale F. (degree committee member.), Moore, Bill C. (degree committee member.)
Format: Thesis Book
Language:English
Published: College Station, Tex. : Texas A & M University, Dept. of Oceanography, 1970.
Series:Project 716 (Texas A & M University. Department of Oceanography) Reference ; no. 70-10T.
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Abstract:Considered here is the dispersion of a dense effluent, such as discharged by a desalting plant, in a steady stream of uniform velocity and density. Of concern are the fields of velocity and density existing downstream from a discharge port. A numerical model of dense effluent dispersion in a rectangular channel with impermeable and frictionless walls is formulated. This model employs finite-difference forms of the Navier-Stokes equations for the steady flow of an incompressible fluid in the absence of streamwise diffusion, treats heat as well as salinity as conservative constituents of the fluid, and employs a linear equation of state. The numerical results appear reasonable and satisfy certain conservation requirements; in addition, for cases in which the effluent is only slightly denser than the ambient stream, the results agree closely with approximate analytical solutions for these cases.
Item Description:Project 716 is Numerical Evaluation of the Dispersal of Effluent from a Desalination Plant.
At head of title: Texas A & M University College of Geosciences.
" ... represents doctoral research of the author."
Sponsored through subcontract with the Dow Chemical Company in connection with Contract No. 14-01-0001-2169 of the Office of Saline Water, U.S. Department of the Interior.
Physical Description:xvii, 156 leaves : illustrations ; 28 cm.