Recent Research Advances in the Fluid Mechanics of Turbulent Jets and Plumes

Transition from jet plume dilution to ambient turbulent mixing.- The effect of ambient turbulence on jet mixing.- The plane submerged horizontal buoyant jet.- Lagrangian scaling of turbulent jets and plumes with dominant eddies.- Numerical simulation of line puffs.- Similarity and self-similarity in the motion of thermals and puffs.- Thermal-saline bubble plumes.- Experiments on negatively buoyant jets, with and without cross-flow.- Behaviour of a buoyant surface jet in a crossflow.- Shallow jets.- Growth of a round jet, under local Reynolds number gradients.- A discrete vortex model of a 2-D turbulent jet.- Plume entrainment in stratified flows.- Laboratory and numerical experiments on the dilution of buoyant surface plumes.- Numerical modelling of jets and plumes - a civil engineering perspective.- Prediction of mean and fluctuating scalar fields in buoyant jet with cross-flow problems.- Numerical implementation of second moment closures and application to turbulent jets.- Embedded streamwise vorticity in an axisymmetric jet.- Atmospheric jets and plumes.- An IBL experiment associated with air pollution transport and diffusion over the Athens area.- Downwash of plumes in the vicinity of buildings: a wind-tunnel study.- Turbulent plumes, thermals and convection in oceans.- An integral model of a liquid CO2 jet discharge into a deep stratified ocean with horizontal currents./.- Entrainment/detrainment along river plumes.- On the influence of background rotation on turbulent jets.- Laboratory studies of jets in rotating and stratified fluids.- Airborne remote sensing observations of topographic steering of cooling water discharges into coastal and estuarine waters.- Jets and plumes and ocean outfall design.- The behaviour of merging buoyant jets.- Mixing tubes for improving dilution at small outfalls.- Entrainment from a buoyant surface layer created by an under baffle wall-jet.- Forward look.