The importance of discharge siting upon contaminant dispersion in narrow rivers and estuaries

DOI10.1017/S0022112081001973zbMath0485.76091OpenAlexW2162825639MaRDI QIDQ3945853

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Publication date: 1981

Published in: Journal of Fluid Mechanics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.1017/s0022112081001973

zbMATH Keywords

narrow rivers and estuariessudden contaminant releasedischarge siting upon contaminant dispersionlongitudinal shear dispersionstrong turbulent mixing

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Hydrology, hydrography, oceanography (86A05) Multiphase and multicomponent flows (76T99) Diffusion and convection (76R99)

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Cites Work

• The initial dispersion of contaminant in Poiseuille flow and the smoothing of the snout
• Longitudinal Dispersion and Turbulent Mixing in Open-Channel Flow
• The approach to normality of the concentration distribution of a solute in a solvent flowing along a straight pipe
• The dispersion of marked fluid in turbulent shear flow

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