An experimental and computational analysis of buoyancy driven flows by laser sheet tomography, particle image velocimetry and computational fluid dynamics

Stickland, MT and Scanlon, TJ and Oldroyd, A and Waddell, P and Crawley, F and Stubbs, B; Mochizuki, Sadanari, ed. (1997) An experimental and computational analysis of buoyancy driven flows by laser sheet tomography, particle image velocimetry and computational fluid dynamics. In: Flow visualization and image processing 1997. Pacific Center of Thermal-Fluids Engineering, Honolulu. ISBN 0965246922

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Abstract

This paper contains details of a three pronged investigation into the development of a buoyant jet impinging on a wall in a closed vessel. The development of the flow was measured experimentally by particle image velocimetry (PIV) and laser sheet tomography. The experimental results are compared with a computational model of the flow calculated by the computational fluid dynamics (CFD) package PHOENICS.