Convective plumes associated with local sources of a heat releasing impurity in a stably stratified medium

A class of self-similar solutions is found for steady convective plumes (axisymmetric and flat, laminar and turbulent) in a stably stratified medium associated with local sources of a weightless heat releasing impurity. The boundary layer approximation is used. Characteristic of such convection is the regime with neutral buoyancy, in which the growth in the buoyancy associated with the heat release is compensated by a reduction due to the ascent to less dense layers of the medium.Translated from Izvestiya Akademii Nauk SSSR, Mekhanika Zhidkosti i Gaza, No. 1, pp. 156–158, January–February, 1984.