• Journal of Korea Water Resources Association
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• v.38 no.8 s.157
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• pp.691-698
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• 2005

A series of experiments has been performed to investigate the flapping motion, which has been generally considered as an intrinsic characteristic of plane flow, of the horizontal merging buoyant jet discharged into stationary ambient water. For Horizontal merging buoyant jets, the flapping motions has been observed and the average onsets of flapping motion coincided with the start of merging transition. The Strouhal number, which describes the measure of frequency of vortices on the flow boundary with respect to the local properties of the flow, varies and converges to a constant value over merging transition. Considering the merging transition and the variation of local flow properties, the characteristics of flapping motion of plane flow can be applied to merging buoyant jets.