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Most outfalls consist of a long length pipe with a diffuser at the seaward end. The diffuser is a continuation of the outfall pipe, but it has ports on either side through which the effluent is discharged. The flow region close to the pipe is extremely complicated particularly at either end of the diffuser. However, an approximate solution to the dilution may be obtained by considering an infinite array of equally spaced merging buoyant jets. This solution is verified for the single buoyant jet and buoyant slot jet and gives reasonable results for the dilutions and the trajectories from experiments for merging buoyant jets. This is the first stage of understanding the behaviour of merging jets in a crossflow and some results are presented in the crossflow case.
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Davidson, M.J., Papps, D.A., Wood, I.R. (1994). The Behaviour of Merging Buoyant Jets. In: Davies, P.A., Neves, M.J.V. (eds) Recent Research Advances in the Fluid Mechanics of Turbulent Jets and Plumes. NATO ASI Series, vol 255. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-011-0918-5_29
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