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The exponential probability density function and concentration fluctuations in smoke plumes

✍ Scribed by Steven R. Hanna

Publisher
Springer
Year
1984
Tongue
English
Weight
719 KB
Volume
29
Category
Article
ISSN
0006-8314

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✦ Synopsis

Observations of l-s average concentration fluctuations during two trials of a U.S. Army diffusion experiment are presented and compared with model predictions based on an exponential probability density function (pdf). The source is near the surface and concentration monitors are on lines about 30 to 100 m downwind of the source. The observed ratio of the standard deviation to the mean of the concentration fluctuations is about 1.3 on the mean plume axis and 4 to 5 on the mean plume edges. Plume intermittency (fraction of non-zero readings) is about 50% on the mean plume axis and 10% on the mean plume edges. A meandering plume model is combined with an exponential pdf assumption to produce predictions of the intermittency and the standard deviation of the concentration fluctuations that are within 20% of the observations.

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