LES model sensitivities to domains, grids, and large-eddy timescales

Journal of the Atmospheric Sciences

Volumn 56, Issue 4, 1999, Pages 599-604

  Agee, Ernest M ^a   Gluhovsky, Alexander ^a  

^a PURDUE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BOUNDARY LAYER FLOW; COMPUTATIONAL FLUID DYNAMICS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; HEAT CONVECTION; INTEGRATION; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; STATISTICAL METHODS;

LARGE EDDY SIMULATION (LES) MODELS; PLANETARY BOUNDARY LAYERS;

ATMOSPHERIC TURBULENCE;

EID: 0033076348     PISSN: 00224928     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/1520-0469(1999)056<0599:LMSTDG>2.0.CO;2     Document Type: Article

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