Velocity and surface shear stress distributions behind a rough-to-smooth surface transition: A simple new model

Boundary-Layer Meteorology

Volumn 130, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 29-41

  Chamorro, Leonardo P ^a   Porté Agel, Fernando ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA   (United States)

^b National Center for Earth Surface Dynamics   (United States)

Author keywords

Atmospheric boundary layer; Large eddy simulation; Roughness transition; Surface shear stress model

Indexed keywords

AERODYNAMICS; ATMOSPHERIC THERMODYNAMICS; ATMOSPHERICS; BOUNDARY LAYER FLOW; BOUNDARY LAYERS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; GAS DYNAMICS; HYDRODYNAMICS; IMAGE SEGMENTATION; LARGE EDDY SIMULATION; SHEAR STRESS; STRENGTH OF MATERIALS; STRESS CONCENTRATION; SURFACE ROUGHNESS; TROPOSPHERE; VELOCITY;

AERODYNAMIC ROUGHNESSES; ANALYTICAL MODELS; ATMOSPHERIC BOUNDARY LAYER; FIELD DATUMS; INTERNAL BOUNDARIES; INTERNAL BOUNDARY LAYERS; LINEAR DISTRIBUTIONS; LOCAL SURFACES; LOG LAWS; LOGARITHMIC PROFILES; NEW MODELS; ROUGHNESS TRANSITION; SMOOTH SURFACES; SURFACE SHEAR STRESS MODEL; TUNNEL MEASUREMENTS; TURBULENT SHEAR STRESSES; VELOCITY PROFILES; WEIGHTED AVERAGES; WEIGHTING FACTORS; WIND VELOCITIES;

WIND STRESS;

BOUNDARY LAYER; LARGE EDDY SIMULATION; MEASUREMENT METHOD; MODELING; PREDICTION; SHEAR STRESS; VELOCITY PROFILE; WIND TUNNEL; WIND VELOCITY;

EID: 58049204300     PISSN: 00068314     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10546-008-9330-x     Document Type: Article

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