Performance of two-equation turbulence closures in three-dimensional simulations of the Red Sea overflow

Ocean Modelling

Volumn 24, Issue 3-4, 2008, Pages 122-139

  Ilicak, Mehmet ^a   Özgökmen, Tamay M ^a   Peters, Hartmut ^a   Baumert, Helmut Z ^b   Iskandarani, Mohamed ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MIAMI   (United States)

^b FREIE UNIVERSITÄT BERLIN   (Germany)

Author keywords

k ; k ; Mixing; Red Sea overflow; Two equation turbulence model

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; DIFFUSION; FLUID DYNAMICS; FLUID MECHANICS; GEOPHYSICS; KNOWLEDGE BASED SYSTEMS; MIXING; OFFSHORE OIL WELL PRODUCTION; PRANDTL NUMBER; SALINITY MEASUREMENT; STANDARDS; STRUCTURAL GEOLOGY; THREE DIMENSIONAL; THREE DIMENSIONAL COMPUTER GRAPHICS; TURBULENCE;

BOTTOM LAYERS; DENSITY GRADIENTS; DIFFUSIVITIES; EDDY DIFFUSIVITY; GEOPHYSICAL APPLICATIONS; GEOPHYSICAL FLOWS; HIGH RESOLUTIONS; HYDRODYNAMIC MODELLING; IN-BETWEEN; INTERFACIAL LAYER; MARGINAL SEAS; MERIDIONAL OVERTURNING CIRCULATION; MIXED-LAYER MODEL; OCEAN GENERAL CIRCULATION MODELS; PARAMETERIZATIONS; QUASI-EQUILIBRIUM; RED SEA OVERFLOW; RED-SEA; REGIONAL MODELING; RICHARDSON NUMBER; SPATIAL SAMPLING; STABILITY FUNCTIONS; THREE-DIMENSIONAL SIMULATIONS; TURBULENCE CLOSURES; TURBULENT ENERGY; TURBULENT FLUXES; TURBULENT PRANDTL NUMBER; TWO-EQUATION; TWO-EQUATION TURBULENCE MODEL; TWO-EQUATION TURBULENCE MODELS; VERTICAL STRUCTURES;

TURBULENCE MODELS;

MERIDIONAL CIRCULATION; MIXING; NUMERICAL MODEL; OCEANIC GENERAL CIRCULATION MODEL; OVERTURN; TURBULENCE;

INDIAN OCEAN; RED SEA [INDIAN OCEAN];

EID: 49849093760     PISSN: 14635003     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ocemod.2008.06.001     Document Type: Article

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