TITLE:
Merging Effluent Discharge Plumes from Multiport Diffusers on a Sloping Beach
AUTHORS:
Anton Purnama
KEYWORDS:
Effluent Discharge; Mathematical Model; Multiple Outfalls; Multiport Diffuser; Sloping Beach
JOURNAL NAME:
Applied Mathematics,
Vol.3 No.1,
January
4,
2012
ABSTRACT: Multiport diffusers are the effective engineering devices installed at the marine outfall systems for the steady discharge of effluent streams from the modern coastal plants, such as municipal sewage treatment, power generation and seawater desalination. A far field mathematical model using a two-dimensional advection-diffusion equation is presented for continuous discharges of effluent streams from multiple outfalls on a uniformly sloping beach with a current parallel to the shoreline. The analytical solutions are illustrated graphically to replicate and capture the merging process of effluent plumes in shallow coastal waters, and then asymptotic approximation will be made to the maximum shoreline’s concentration to formulate effluent discharge plume dilution from a multiport diffuser.