Lagrangian stochastic modeling of heavy particle transport in the convective boundary layer

Atmospheric Environment

Volumn 39, Issue 27, 2005, Pages 4841-4850

  Boehm, Matthew T ^a   Aylor, Donald E ^a  

^a Connecticut Agricultural Experiment Station ^*  (United States)

Author keywords

Atmospheric dispersion modeling; Inhomogeneous turbulence; Langevin equation; Particle fall velocity; Skewed probability distribution function

Indexed keywords

ACCELERATION; BOUNDARY LAYERS; CONCENTRATION (PROCESS); DISPERSIONS; PARTICLES (PARTICULATE MATTER); TRANSPORT PROPERTIES;

ATMOSPHERIC DISPERSION MODELING; HEAVY PARTICLES; INHOMOGENEOUS TURBULENCE; LANGEVIN EQUATION; PARTICLE FALL VELOCITY; SKEWED PROBABILITY DENSITY FUNCTION;

LAGRANGE MULTIPLIERS;

CONVECTIVE BOUNDARY LAYER; DISPERSION; LAGRANGIAN ANALYSIS; MODELING; PARTICULATE FLUX; TURBULENCE;

ARTICLE; CALCULATION; DISPERSION; FALLING; PREDICTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; THEORETICAL MODEL; THERMODYNAMICS; TRANSPORT KINETICS; TURBULENT FLOW; VELOCITY;

EID: 23744459821     PISSN: 13522310     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.atmosenv.2005.04.023     Document Type: Article

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