Jet/Plume BC Editor
One of the options available when a user creates a new boundary condition is option type 8, Jet/plume. The form for editing the Jet/plume BC is shown in Jet/Plume Boundary Condition Editor Figure 1. EFDC+ has been enhanced to work smoothly with the EE defined jet/plume settings.
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Other options include setting the Entrainment Error Criteria, whichis a factor used in the iterative solution. An adjustment factor for the Froude Number may also be set. EFDC can write out a log file of the Jet/plume in various formats. Specify 1 for full ASCII, 2 for compact ASCII output at each update, 3 for full and compact ASCII output, and 4 for binary output.
Jet/Plume Boundary Condition Editor Figure 2 illustrates an application of the jet/plume BC for a temperature distribution in the case of two diffusers in a weak flow stream.
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Figure 2 Thermal Discharge from Multiport Diffusers using Jet/Plume BC.
Jet/Plume Sub-model
The Jet/PIume sub-model in EFDC is partly described in EPA's "Review of potential modeling tools and approaches to support the BEACH program." Here an early version of the sub-model is described as providing a buoyant jet near-field dilution and mixing zone sub-model that is incorporated directly into the EFDC. The model simulates single-port and merging multi-port discharges using a three-dimensional extension of the Lagrangian formulations used in the UM model (Baumgartner et al.. 1994) and the JETLAG model (Lee and Cheung. 1990). The jet/plume model is unique in its use of unsteady fully three-dimensional ambient velocity density and concentration fields and realistic bathymetry for trajectory, entrainment, and dilution calculations. For multi-port discharges the merging of individual port plumes into multiple coalesced plumes is simulated. In addition to simulating the near-field and far-field concentration of dissolved contaminants, the jet/plume sub-model simulates sediment transport and the transport and fate of sorptive contaminants including the settling and bed exchange of the suspended and sorbed material (note that water quality parameters are not simulated at this stage).
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