Effects of plume spacing and flowrate on destratification efficiency of air diffusers

Water Research

Volumn 42, Issue 13, 2008, Pages 3249-3262

  Yum, Kyungtaek ^a   Sung, Hoon Kim ^b   Park, Heekyung ^b  

^a Korea Water Resources Corporation   (South Korea)

^b Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST)   (South Korea)

Author keywords

Bubble plume; Combined plume effect; Computational fluid dynamics (CFD); Non dimensional variable; Plume spacing

Indexed keywords

AIR; EFFICIENCY;

AIR DIFFUSERS; AIR FLOW-RATE; BUBBLE PLUMES; COMBINED PLUME EFFECT; COMPUTATIONAL FLUID DYNAMIC; DESTRATIFICATION EFFICIENCIES; DESTRATIFICATION NUMBERS; LAB. EXPERIMENT; NON-DIMENSIONAL VARIABLE; PLUME SPACING;

COMPUTATIONAL FLUID DYNAMICS;

FRESH WATER;

CALIBRATION; COMPUTATIONAL FLUID DYNAMICS; DESIGN; DIFFUSION; EXPERIMENTAL STUDY; MODELING; PLUME; SPACING; STRATIFICATION; WATER DEPTH;

AIRFLOW; ARTICLE; COMPUTATIONAL FLUID DYNAMICS; DIFFUSION; FLOW RATE; PLUME; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SIMULATION; STRATIFICATION; THERMAL ANALYSIS; VELOCITY;

EID: 54049154321     PISSN: 00431354     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.watres.2007.06.035     Document Type: Article

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