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AfterReleasePhase

Again the garage experiment is characterised by the two time domains. As a complete scaling of the overall experiment is difficult and - in fact - not necessary, we decided to analyse this experiment in two steps. For the first phase the upward directed jet has been compared to the empirical scaling in the literature. For the second phase we want to know who the injected gas behaves in the nominally closed room.

After switching off turbulence generating sources the turbulence connected with the contained gases will decay. Most experiments on decaying turbulence have been performed in wind tunnels up to now, where the distance from the grid gives the decay time t, if the mean velocity is known. In the garage experiment the mean velocity after the release phase is zero. So either one could measure the fluctuations in the gas layer close to the roof with its high hydrogen content or one could refer to scaling considerations like in [Lohse] etc.