Building resolving large-eddy simulations and comparison with wind tunnel experiments

Journal of Computational Physics

Volumn 227, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 633-653

  Smolarkiewicz, Piotr K ^a   Sharman, Robert ^a   Weil, Jeffrey ^b   Perry, Steven G ^c   Heist, David ^c   Bowker, George ^d  

^a NATIONAL CENTER FOR ATMOSPHERIC RESEARCH   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

^c NOAA EARTH SYSTEM RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

^d U S ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY   (United States)

Author keywords

Flow past a building; Immersed boundary approach; Terrain following coordinates; Urban boundary layers

Indexed keywords

BOUNDARY LAYER FLOW; BOUNDARY LAYERS; BUILDINGS; EQUATIONS OF MOTION; INCOMPRESSIBLE FLOW; TURBULENT FLOW; WIND TUNNELS;

FLOW PAST A BUILDING; IMMERSED BOUNDARY; IMMERSED-BOUNDARY APPROACH; LARGE-EDDY SIMULATIONS; SCALE-MODEL; TERRAIN FOLLOWING; TERRAIN-FOLLOWING COORDINATE; URBAN BOUNDARY LAYERS; WIND TUNNEL EXPERIMENT; WIND-TUNNEL DATA;

LARGE EDDY SIMULATION;

EID: 35348844625     PISSN: 00219991     EISSN: 10902716     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jcp.2007.08.005     Document Type: Article

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