Transition to the buoyancy dominated regime in a planar temporal forced plume

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Main Authors: Boga, G., Cimarelli, A., Esposito, M. Crialesi, Musacchio, S., Stalio, E., Boffetta, G.
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Published: 2025
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author Boga, G.
Cimarelli, A.
Esposito, M. Crialesi
Musacchio, S.
Stalio, E.
Boffetta, G.
author_facet Boga, G.
Cimarelli, A.
Esposito, M. Crialesi
Musacchio, S.
Stalio, E.
Boffetta, G.
contents We study the transition from momentum- to buoyancy-dominated regime in temporal jets forced by gravity. From the conservation of the thermal content and of the volume flux, we develop a simple model which is able to describe accurately the transition between the two regimes in terms of a single parameter representing the entrainment coefficient. Our analytical results are validated against a set of numerical simulations of temporal planar forced plumes at different initial values of Reynolds and Froude numbers. We find that, although the the pure jet-scaling law is not clearly observed in simulations at finite Froude number, the model correctly describe the transition to the buoyancy-dominated regime which emerges at long times.
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spellingShingle Transition to the buoyancy dominated regime in a planar temporal forced plume
Boga, G.
Cimarelli, A.
Esposito, M. Crialesi
Musacchio, S.
Stalio, E.
Boffetta, G.
Fluid Dynamics
We study the transition from momentum- to buoyancy-dominated regime in temporal jets forced by gravity. From the conservation of the thermal content and of the volume flux, we develop a simple model which is able to describe accurately the transition between the two regimes in terms of a single parameter representing the entrainment coefficient. Our analytical results are validated against a set of numerical simulations of temporal planar forced plumes at different initial values of Reynolds and Froude numbers. We find that, although the the pure jet-scaling law is not clearly observed in simulations at finite Froude number, the model correctly describe the transition to the buoyancy-dominated regime which emerges at long times.
title Transition to the buoyancy dominated regime in a planar temporal forced plume
topic Fluid Dynamics
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.02234