Affiliation: | a Laboratoire de Mécanique des Fluides et d'Acoustique, École Centrale de Lyon, Université Claude Bernard, Lyon I, 36 av Guy de Collongue BP 163, 69131 Ecully, France b Laboratoire Génie de l'Environnement Industriel, École Nationale Supérieure des Techniques et des Mines d'Alès, 6 av de Clavières 30100 Alès, France |
Abstract: | ![]() Water curtains have been suggested as a way of limiting the spread of ammonia in the event of an accidental release. Several field experiments have already been performed to investigate the interaction between a water curtain and a cloud of ammonia, most recently by Bara and Dusserre (1997, J. Loss Prev. Ind., 10(3), 179–183). Those experiments have been modelled numerically, using the computational code Mercure. The calculated velocities and concentrations agree reasonably well with the measurements. |