FLOW VISUALIZATION ON THE BUOYANT SURFACE JET DISCHARGED ON THE SLOPING BOTTOM

Abstract

Surface buoyant jets discharged on the sloping bottom was studied experimentally. Flow visualization techniques were used to reveal the behaivior of the interactions between surface buoyant jet and bottom slope. The configurations of density interface of the cross section on the jet axis were classified into five types and classification diagram was proposed. The deformation of the buoyant surface jet in the horizontal cross section due to bottom slope was also visualized. Periodic thermal fronts due to bottom slope which have been observed in the fields were reproduced in the experiments.