Effect of the entrainment flux ratio on the relationship between entrainment rate and convective Richardson number

Boundary-Layer Meteorology

Volumn 126, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 237-247

  Sun, Jianning ^a,b   Wang, Yuan ^a,b  

^a NANJING UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b BEIJING UNIVERSITY OF POSTS AND TELECOMMUNICATIONS   (China)

Author keywords

Convective Richardson number; Entrainment rate; Entrainment zone thickness; First order jump model; Total entrainment flux ratio

Indexed keywords

LARGE EDDY SIMULATION; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; THERMAL STRATIFICATION;

ENTRAINMENT FLUX; FIRST-ORDER JUMP MODEL; RICHARDSON NUMBER;

TRANSPORT PROPERTIES;

LARGE EDDY SIMULATION; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; THERMAL STRATIFICATION; TRANSPORT PROPERTIES;

ENTRAINMENT; LARGE EDDY SIMULATION; PARAMETERIZATION; POWER LAW; RICHARDSON NUMBER; STRATIFICATION;

EID: 38649125919     PISSN: 00068314     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10546-007-9231-4     Document Type: Article

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