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Plume rise above a stack

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Measurements have been made on the hydrodynamic and thermal components of plume rise above stacks; working formulas are derived.

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  1. É. P. Volkov
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Translated from Inzhenerno-Fizicheskii Zhurnal, Vol. 36, No. 4, pp. 700–707, April, 1979.

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Volkov, É.P. Plume rise above a stack. Journal of Engineering Physics 36, 466–471 (1979). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00866974

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