Modeling the mixing of heated water discharged from a submerged multiport diffuser

The mixing of heated water which is discharged from a submerged multiport diffuser was analyzed using the three-dimensional grid-based numerical model. The discharge momentum flux is properly incorporated into the model using the concept of a numerical slot diffuser, along with multi-jet theory. Plane or line patch was introduced to impose discharge momentum flux which plays an important role in mixing of the thermal effluent in the near field. The laboratory experimental work has been conducted to investigate mixing characteristics of the coflowing diffuser. A comparison of model simulations with laboratory experiments show that the proposed model properly simulates the shapes of thermal plumes and the distributions of excess temperature. The proposed model properly simulates velocity induced by a coflowing diffuser in proximity to a shoreline boundary, and this is confirmed by Lee's experiments.