Experimental Measurements of Concentration Fluctuations and Scales in a Dispersing Plume in the Atmospheric Surface Layer Obtained Using a Very Fast Response Concentration Detector

Abstract

High-frequency fluctuations of concentration in a plume dispersing in the atmospheric surface layer have been measured with high-resolution concentration detectors (approximately 270 Hz at the -6-dB point) to extract various concentration statistics of the fluctuating concentration field. Crosswind and alongwind variations of amplitude statistics (e.g., the total and conditional fluctuation intensity, skewness, and kurtosis), the intermittency factor, and the shapes of the concentration probability density function (PDF) are presented. The behavior of temporal concentration statistics such as the autocorrelation function; power spectrum; PDF of upcrossing intervals; PDF of excursion durations; various concentration timescales, length scales, and microscales (e.g., Taylor microscale, correlation scale, length scale based on the spectral peak, etc.); as well as the velocity-to-concentration timescale ratio are studied. It is shown that all the concentration length scales and microscales (with the exception of the correlation scale) grow with downwind distance in proportion to the mean plume width.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Jun 14, 2016
Accession Number
AD1003694

Entities

People

  • C. A. Biltoft
  • Eugene Yee
  • G. M. Chandler
  • J. F. Bowers
  • P. R. Kosteniuk
  • R. Chan

Organizations

  • Defence Research Establishment Suffield

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Communities of Interest

  • Sensors

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Canada
  • Data Science
  • Detectors
  • Dispersing
  • Flow Fields
  • Fluid Dynamics
  • Fluid Mechanics
  • High Resolution
  • Information Science
  • Layers
  • Measurement
  • Mechanics
  • Meteorology
  • Power Spectra
  • Probability Density Functions
  • Quality Control
  • Statistics

Readers

  • Analytical Chemistry
  • Atmospheric Science / Meteorology, specifically Wind Wave Turbulence.
  • Statistical inference.