CFD modelling of small particle dispersion: The influence of the turbulence kinetic energy in the atmospheric boundary layer

Atmospheric Environment

Volumn 43, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 673-681

  Gorle C ^a,b   van Beeck, J ^b   Rambaud, P ^b   Van Tendeloo, G ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ANTWERP   (Belgium)

^b VON KARMAN INSTITUTE FOR FLUID DYNAMICS   (Belgium)

Author keywords

Atmospheric Boundary Layer (ABL); Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD); Numerical simulation; Particle dispersion; Turbulence kinetic energy

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC BOUNDARY LAYER (ABL); COMPARING SIMULATIONS; COMPUTATIONAL WIND ENGINEERINGS; FLAT TERRAINS; FLUCTUATING VELOCITIES; HOMOGENEOUS TURBULENCES; NUMERICAL SIMULATION; PARTICLE DISPERSION; PARTICLE PATHS; RANS SIMULATIONS; REYNOLDS AVERAGED NAVIER STOKES; SMALL PARTICLES; TURBULENCE KINETIC ENERGY; TURBULENT DISPERSIONS; VELOCITY PROFILES; WIND TUNNEL MEASUREMENTS;

AERODYNAMICS; AIR; ATMOSPHERIC THERMODYNAMICS; ATMOSPHERICS; BOUNDARY CONDITIONS; BOUNDARY LAYERS; BOUNDARY VALUE PROBLEMS; COMPUTATIONAL FLUID DYNAMICS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DISPERSION (WAVES); DYNAMICS; ELECTRON ENERGY LOSS SPECTROSCOPY; FLUID DYNAMICS; GAS DYNAMICS; HYDRODYNAMICS; KINETIC ENERGY; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; MODELS; NAVIER STOKES EQUATIONS; TROPOSPHERE; TURBULENCE; WIND POWER;

TURBULENCE MODELS;

AEROSOL; BOUNDARY LAYER; COMPUTATIONAL FLUID DYNAMICS; DISPERSION; KINETIC ENERGY; SIMULATION; TURBULENCE;

EID: 58049150363     PISSN: 13522310     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.atmosenv.2008.09.060     Document Type: Article

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