Review of Turbulent Jets and Plumes—A Lagrangian Approach by Joseph H. W. Lee and Vincent H. ChuTurbulent Jets and Plumes—A Lagrangian ApproachKluwer Academic Publishers$135

Abstract

The authors attempt “to give a consistent and unified development of a Lagrangian approach for the prediction of free jets and plumes, including effects of crossflow and ambient density stratification. The authors believe that the integral approach plays a pivotal role in explaining important and practically useful concepts to the engineer and that the subject can best be understood by observation of simple experiments,” and this reviewer shares this view. A practical Lagrangian modeling tool in the form of an interactive virtual reality software VISJET is offered to the readers to solve their problems. The text includes many worked examples and provides problems for the reader to solve. This book is intended for senior undergraduates and first-year graduate students in water and environmental engineering programs. It can also serve as an introduction to environmental fluid mechanics for students in mechanical and chemical engineering as well as earth and environmental sciences. The first chapter provides a general introduction to turbulent jets and plumes, with some pictures of jets and plumes in the environment. Chapter 2 presents a detailed treatment of plane and circular turbulent jets. It develops the integral equations from the Reynolds equations and the continuity equation and shows good correlation of the different scales along with some details of turbulence properties from experiments. On page 28, p / y is wrongly given the order of zero, and it would be logical to add a minus sign on the left-hand side of Eq. 2-30. Chapter 3 deals with turbulent plumes and buoyant jets. It considers in detail the round plume, the relevant equations of motion, as well as integral equations and extends this treatment to plumes with initial momentum buoyant jets . This chapter also introduces a discussion of the