Large-eddy simulations of convective boundary layers using nonoscillatory differencing

Physica D: Nonlinear Phenomena

Volumn 133, Issue 1-4, 1999, Pages 390-397

  Margolin, Len G ^a   Smolarkiewicz, Piotr K ^b   Sorbjan, Zbigniew ^c  

^a LOS ALAMOS NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^b NATIONAL CENTER FOR ATMOSPHERIC RESEARCH   (United States)

^c MARQUETTE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

65C20; 65M05; 76D05; 76F99; 76R99; Advection; Boundary layers; Computational fluid dynamics; Large eddy simulations; Nonoscillatory approximations

Indexed keywords

EID: 0000144705     PISSN: 01672789     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0167-2789(99)00083-4     Document Type: Article

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