Effect of turbulence models and spatial resolution on resolved velocity structure and momentum fluxes in large-eddy simulations of neutral boundary layer flow

Journal of Applied Meteorology and Climatology

Volumn 48, Issue 6, 2009, Pages 1161-1180

  Ludwig, Francis L ^a   Chow, Fotini Katopodes ^b   Street, Robert L ^a  

^a Stanford University   (United States)

^b Berkeley   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADVANCED REGIONAL PREDICTION SYSTEM MODELS; ATMOSPHERIC FLOWS; ATMOSPHERIC PROCESS; CONFIDENCE LEVELS; DYNAMIC MIXED MODEL; DYNAMIC RECONSTRUCTION; EDDY VISCOSITY; FLOW FEATURES; GRID RESOLUTION; GRID SIMULATIONS; HIGH QUALITY; LOW ALTITUDES; MEAN VELOCITIES; MOMENTUM FLUX; NEAR-SURFACE; NEUTRAL BOUNDARY LAYER FLOW; NEUTRAL FLOW; ROUGH SURFACES; SIMILARITY THEORY; SIMULATION TOOL; SPATIAL CORRELATIONS; SPATIAL RESOLUTION; SPATIAL STRUCTURE; STREAMWISE VELOCITY; SUBFILTER; SUBFILTER SCALE; TURBULENT KINETIC ENERGY; VELOCITY STRUCTURE;

ATMOSPHERIC MOVEMENTS; ATMOSPHERIC THERMODYNAMICS; COMPUTATIONAL FLUID DYNAMICS; DYNAMIC MODELS; KINETIC ENERGY; LARGE EDDY SIMULATION; MOMENTUM; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SIMULATORS;

TURBULENCE MODELS;

ATMOSPHERIC TRANSPORT; BOUNDARY LAYER; FLOW FIELD; HEAT FLUX; LARGE EDDY SIMULATION; PREDICTION; SPATIAL RESOLUTION; TURBULENCE;

EID: 67651241778     PISSN: 15588424     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/2008JAMC2021.1     Document Type: Article

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