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Dilution Models for Effluent Discharges - Visual Plumes (4th Edition)

This model is distributed by EPA as a legacy model, but no user support is available from EPA.

Manual for Visual Plumes, a Windows-based mixing zone modeling application simulating single & merging submerged plumes in arbitrarily stratified ambient flow & buoyant surface discharges.

Dilution Models for Effluent Discharges - Visual Plumes (4th Edition) (pdf) (5.45 MB)
VP addresses the issue of model consistency in a unique way, by including other models in its suite of models.

Dilution Models for Effluent Discharges - Visual Plumes (4th Edition)

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