Employing Heisenberg's turbulent spectral transfer theory to parameterize sub-filter scales in LES models

Atmospheric Environment

Volumn 41, Issue 33, 2007, Pages 7059-7068

  Degrazia, Gervásio A ^a   Nunes, André B ^b   Satyamurty, Prakki ^b   Acevedo, Otávio C ^a   de Campos Velho, Haroldo F ^b   Rizza, Umberto ^c   Carvalho, Jonas C ^d  

^a FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF SANTA MARIA   (Brazil)

^b INSTITUTO NACIONAL DE PESQUISAS ESPACIAIS   (Brazil)

^c CNR   (Italy)

^d FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF PELOTAS   (Brazil)

Author keywords

Convective boundary layer; Heisenberg model; LES subfilter

Indexed keywords

CONSTRAINT THEORY; ENERGY TRANSFER; PARAMETER ESTIMATION; TURBULENT FLOW; VISCOSITY;

CONVECTIVE BOUNDARY LAYER; GRID MESH; HEISENBERG MODEL;

LARGE EDDY SIMULATION;

CONVECTIVE BOUNDARY LAYER; ENERGY FLOW; LARGE EDDY SIMULATION; PARAMETERIZATION; TURBULENCE; VISCOSITY;

ARTICLE; DATA ANALYSIS; FILTER; LARGE EDDY SIMULATION; OBSERVATIONAL METHOD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SIMULATION; SPECTROSCOPY; THEORETICAL MODEL; TURBULENT FLOW; VISCOSITY;

EID: 34748882438     PISSN: 13522310     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.atmosenv.2007.05.004     Document Type: Article

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