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Past exam of the mathematics course of the University of Cambridge 2002 iii Paper 52 6 b Solution by
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Normalize all fluxes by , rather than including that factor in only some of them. The specific plume volume flux, momentum flux and buoyancy flux areThe ambient transport is and its specific momentum flux isPut , with . The total specific momentum flux isThe first differential equation follows immediately from relative-speed fluid entrainment:For the second, differentiate and use . Since , this yieldsThis is the requested two-equation system, with and zero total volume flux as the additional conservation conditions. Near the pure source, and . Eliminating height in that limit givesThe zero integration constant selects a pure plume; a nonzero imposed source momentum would select a different branch and generally a different turning height. The leading radius is , which recovers the unconfined pure-plume limit near the source.
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