Abstract
The results of a hydraulic simulation of denser-than-air plumes in a neutral atmosphere are presented and discussed. The behaviour of these amission is of particular practical interest in connection with problems of geothermal drilling. The experimental data, concerning the height and the horizontal distance from the source of the maximum plume rise, as well as the distance where the plume touches ground, were compared with simple analytical formulae available in the literature. It was found that plume rise is described with sufficient accuracy by Meroney's model; for touchdown distance an empirical formula, obtained fitting the data from the present experiment, is proposed. It was seen, moreover, that in the examined range of variability of the emission parameters the best value to be adopted for the entrainment coefficient is β=0.4.
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