{"id":30,"date":"2015-02-27T21:45:33","date_gmt":"2015-02-28T02:45:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/codykirkpatrick.com\/blog\/?p=30"},"modified":"2015-02-27T21:49:20","modified_gmt":"2015-02-28T02:49:20","slug":"turbulence-and-mixing-at-the-power-plant","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/codykirkpatrick.com\/blog\/turbulence-and-mixing-at-the-power-plant\/","title":{"rendered":"Turbulence and mixing at the power plant"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"width: 474px;\" class=\"wp-video\"><video class=\"wp-video-shortcode\" id=\"video-30-1\" width=\"474\" height=\"356\" preload=\"metadata\" controls=\"controls\"><source type=\"video\/mp4\" src=\"https:\/\/codykirkpatrick.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/20150227_1009b.mp4?_=1\" \/><a href=\"https:\/\/codykirkpatrick.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/20150227_1009b.mp4\">https:\/\/codykirkpatrick.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/20150227_1009b.mp4<\/a><\/video><\/div>\n<p>Hot, moist exhaust from the campus power plant stacks mixed with frigid air this morning to produce some great turbulent flow and even some &#8220;mixing clouds.&#8221;\u00a0 (Video is 90 seconds; I zoom in a bit at 60.) \u00a0My favorite part: notice that the interior of each plume\u00a0<em>remains somewhat clear<\/em>&#8211;that&#8217;s the part of the &#8220;updraft&#8221; that entrains ambient air last, so in this case, it stays clear the longest. \u00a0Neat!<\/p>\n<p>As for the clouds, this is the same process that causes airplane contrails, and your breath to appear in winter. \u00a0For more information, here&#8217;s the <a href=\"http:\/\/glossary.ametsoc.org\/wiki\/Mixing_cloud\" target=\"_blank\">AMS Glossary definition of mixing clouds<\/a> and here&#8217;s a quick <a href=\"http:\/\/www.hko.gov.hk\/education\/edu06nature\/ele_mixing_e.htm\" target=\"_blank\">explanation using temperature and vapor pressure<\/a> from the Hong Kong Observatory.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ll look for a couple of good explanations &amp; links related to entrainment and update this when I have the chance.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hot, moist exhaust from the campus power plant stacks mixed with frigid air this morning to produce some great turbulent flow and even some &#8220;mixing clouds.&#8221;\u00a0 (Video is 90 seconds; I zoom in a bit at 60.) \u00a0My favorite part: notice that the interior of each plume\u00a0remains somewhat clear&#8211;that&#8217;s the part of the &#8220;updraft&#8221; that &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/codykirkpatrick.com\/blog\/turbulence-and-mixing-at-the-power-plant\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Turbulence and mixing at the power plant<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"video","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-30","post","type-post","status-publish","format-video","hentry","category-education","category-weather","post_format-post-format-video"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/codykirkpatrick.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/codykirkpatrick.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/codykirkpatrick.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/codykirkpatrick.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/codykirkpatrick.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=30"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/codykirkpatrick.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":49,"href":"https:\/\/codykirkpatrick.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30\/revisions\/49"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/codykirkpatrick.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/codykirkpatrick.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=30"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/codykirkpatrick.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=30"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}