Coherent structures and dynamics in a neutrally stratified planetary boundary layer flow

Physics of Fluids

Volumn 8, Issue 10, 1996, Pages 2626-2639

  Lin, Ching Long ^a   McWilliams, James C ^a,b   Moeng, Chin Hoh ^a   Sullivan, Peter P ^a  

^a NATIONAL CENTER FOR ATMOSPHERIC RESEARCH   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; FINITE DIFFERENCE METHOD; FLOW VISUALIZATION; NAVIER STOKES EQUATIONS; OSCILLATIONS; PRESSURE; STATISTICAL MECHANICS; SURFACE ROUGHNESS; VELOCITY; VORTEX FLOW;

CAPPING INVERSION; COHERENT STRUCTURES; CORIOLIS FORCE; EJECTION EVENTS; FOUR DIMENSIONAL; LARGE EDDY SIMULATION; NEUTRALLY STRATIFIED BOUNDARY LAYER FLOW; POISSON EQUATIONS;

BOUNDARY LAYER FLOW;

BOUNDARY LAYER MODELS; DYNAMICS; FLOW VISUALIZATION;

EID: 0030266249     PISSN: 10706631     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1063/1.869048     Document Type: Article

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