Turbulence closure models and their application in RAMS

Environmental Fluid Mechanics

Volumn 5, Issue 1-2, 2005, Pages 169-192

  Castelli, S Trini ^a   Ferrero, E ^a,b   Anfossi, D ^a   Ohba, R ^c  

^a CNR   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF EASTERN PIEDMONT   (Italy)

^c MITSUBISHI HEAVY INDUSTRIES LTD   (Japan)

Author keywords

Boundary layer; Complex terrain; Empirical constants; Neutral stratification; Turbulence closures

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC TURBULENCE; BOUNDARY LAYERS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; METEOROLOGY; WIND TUNNELS;

ATMOSPHERIC MODELING; BOUNDARY LAYER; DIFFUSION; TURBULENCE;

EID: 31344435685     PISSN: 15677419     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10652-005-1596-7     Document Type: Article

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