Abstract
Observations of the time-mean plumes from the natural-draft cooling towers at the Tennessee Valley Authority's Paradise Steam Plant taken during the winter of 1973 are compared with a one-dimensional model for moist plume behaviour. A bent-over plume model based on the closed form solution to the integral form of the governing equations for plume behaviour for an atmosphere of linear stable stratification was found to adequately describe most of the observed plume trajectories and visible lengths. However, numerical integration of the equations are required to account for detailed effects of vertical wind shear and elevated inversions on plume trajectory. Plume trajectory and visible length are greatly influenced by tower downwash.
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