Energy conservation and second-order statistics in stably stratified turbulent boundary layers

Environmental Fluid Mechanics

Volumn 9, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 267-295

  L'vov, Victor S ^a   Procaccia, Itamar ^a   Rudenko, Oleksii ^a  

^a WEIZMANN INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE   (Israel)

Author keywords

Algebraic model; Atmospheric boundary layer; Richardson number; Second order closure; Stable stratification; Transport equations

Indexed keywords

ALGEBRAIC MODEL; ATMOSPHERIC BOUNDARY LAYER; RICHARDSON NUMBER; SECOND ORDER CLOSURE; STABLE STRATIFICATION; TRANSPORT EQUATIONS;

ALGEBRA; ATMOSPHERIC MOVEMENTS; ATMOSPHERIC TURBULENCE; ATMOSPHERICS; BOUNDARY LAYER FLOW; BOUNDARY LAYERS; ENERGY CONSERVATION; MIXED CONVECTION; TROPOSPHERE; TURBULENCE; TURBULENT FLOW; WIND EFFECTS;

ATMOSPHERIC THERMODYNAMICS;

AIR TEMPERATURE; CORRELATION; ENERGY CONSERVATION; HEAT FLUX; KELVIN-HELMHOLTZ INSTABILITY; OBSERVATIONAL METHOD; RICHARDSON NUMBER; STRATIFIED FLOW; TURBULENCE; TURBULENT BOUNDARY LAYER; VORTICITY;

EID: 67349227462     PISSN: 15677419     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10652-008-9117-0     Document Type: Article

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