Dispersion of marked fluid in reservoirs

The paper gives relationships for predicting reservoir circulation generated by radial and tangential jets. These relationships show the importance of the reservoir's aspect-ratio, and the Reynolds number of the jet.Details are also given of concentration-experiments using the conductivity and fluorimetric methods, and incorporating various inlet and outlet arrangements. Peripheral and radial dispersion-coefficients were obtained, and found to be of the same order of magnitude. These coefficients were dependent on the size of the model and on the local Reynolds numbers. The values of dispersion coefficients for reservoirs are similar to those for one-dimensional open channel flow.