What causes the divergences in local second-order closure models?

Journal of the Atmospheric Sciences

Volumn 62, Issue 5, 2005, Pages 1645-1651

  Canuto, V M ^a,b   Cheng, Y ^a   Howard, A M ^a,c  

^a NASA GODDARD INSTITUTE FOR SPACE STUDIES   (United States)

^b Columbia University ^*  (United States)

^c MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BOUNDARY LAYERS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DATA ACQUISITION; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; THERMAL EFFECTS; THERMAL EXPANSION;

LARGE EDDY SIMULATION (LES); PLANETARY BOUNDARY LAYER (PBL); SECOND-ORDER CLOSURE (SOC); THIRD-ORDER MOMENTS (TOM);

BUOYANCY;

DIVERGENCE; LARGE EDDY SIMULATION;

EID: 20444473698     PISSN: 00224928     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/JAS3420.1     Document Type: Article

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