Abstract
Waste water may due to buoyancy effects spread horizontally on top of the recipient. The spreading is chiefly determined by the buoyancy flux and to a large extent unaffected by dilution and diffusion. This phenomenon is of great practical importance for larger outfalls of waste or cooling water in coastal regions.
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