A numerical study of interacting buoyant cooling-tower plumes

被引:37
作者
Bornoff, RB [1 ]
Mokhtarzadeh-Dehghan, MR [1 ]
机构
[1] Brunel Univ, Dept Mech Engn, Uxbridge UB8 3PH, Middx, England
关键词
cooling tower; plumes; modelling; CFD;
D O I
10.1016/S1352-2310(00)00296-X
中图分类号
X [环境科学、安全科学];
学科分类号
08 ; 0830 ;
摘要
The compact design of mechanical cooling towers necessitates that the plumes are issued into the cross-wind in close proximity. An improved understanding of the interaction of adjacent plumes is therefore required for better design of such cooling towers, which may lead to a reduction in their environmental impact. This paper presents the results of a numerical investigation into the interaction of two adjacent plumes in a cross-flow. The numerical model simulates small-scale wind tunnel experiments of a cooling tower arrangement. The computations are performed for three-dimensional, turbulent, buoyant and interacting plumes, and for a single plume for comparison. Two double-source arrangements, namely, tandem and side-by-side, with respect to the oncoming atmospheric boundary layer are considered. A low Reynolds number k-epsilon turbulence model is used with two discretisation schemes, hybrid and QUICK, and the results are compared. Comparisons are also made with the experimental results. The results show that the interaction of side-by-side plumes is dominated by the interaction of the rotating vortex pairs within the plumes. A tandem source arrangement leads to early merging and efficient rise enhancement. Comparisons of the: predicted results with experimental data show good agreement for the plume rise. (C) 2000 Elsevier Science Ltd. All rights reserved.
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页码:589 / 598
页数:10
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