Investigation of the subgrid-scale stress and its production rate in a convective atmospheric boundary layer using measurement data

Journal of Fluid Mechanics

Volumn 547, Issue , 2006, Pages 65-104

  Chen, Qinglin ^a   Tong, Chenning ^a  

^a AMRL   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANISOTROPY; BOUNDARY LAYERS; BUOYANCY; ENERGY TRANSFER; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; STATISTICAL METHODS; STRESSES;

ATMOSPHERIC SURFACE LAYER; LARGE-EDDY SIMULATION (LES); RESOLVABLE-SCALE VELOCITY STATISTICS; SUBGRID-SCALE (SGS) STRESS;

SHEAR FLOW;

ANISOTROPY; BOUNDARY LAYERS; BUOYANCY; ENERGY TRANSFER; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; SHEAR FLOW; STATISTICAL METHODS; STRESSES;

FLUID MECHANICS;

EID: 31344450227     PISSN: 00221120     EISSN: 14697645     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S0022112005007196     Document Type: Article

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