Buoyant plume rise described by a Lagrangian turbulence model

Atmospheric Environment

Volumn 33, Issue 13, 1999, Pages 2031-2043

  Heinz, Stefan ^a   Van Dop, Han ^b  

^a DELFT UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Netherlands)

^b UTRECHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Buoyancy; Lagrangian stochastic models; Similarity theory; Turbulence models; Turbulent dispersion

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC TEMPERATURE; ATMOSPHERIC TURBULENCE; BUOYANCY; DISPERSIONS; EQUATIONS OF MOTION; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; OPTICAL RADAR; RANDOM PROCESSES; THERMAL POLLUTION; THERMAL STRATIFICATION;

LAGRANGIAN STOCHASTIC MODELS; LAGRANGIAN TURBULENCE MODELS; SIMILARITY THEORY;

THERMAL PLUMES;

ATMOSPHERIC POLLUTION; MODELING; PLUME; TURBULENCE;

ARTICLE; MATHEMATICAL ANALYSIS; MATHEMATICAL MODEL; PLUME DISPERSION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SHEAR RATE; STOCHASTIC MODEL; TURBULENT FLOW;

EID: 0033151271     PISSN: 13522310     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S1352-2310(98)00414-2     Document Type: Article

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