Scaling of the vertical spreading of a plume of a passive tracer in a rough-wall neutral boundary layer

Boundary-Layer Meteorology

Volumn 135, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 455-467

  Salizzoni, Pietro ^a,b   van Liefferinge, Raphaël ^a   Mejean, Patrick ^a   Soulhac, Lionel ^a   Perkins, Richard J ^a  

^a ECOLE CENTRALE DE LYON   (France)

^b POLITECNICO DI TORINO   (Italy)

Author keywords

Neutral boundary layer; Passive scalar dispersion; Plume spreading; Roughness

Indexed keywords

BOUNDARY LAYER FLOW; BOUNDARY LAYERS; DISPERSIONS; QUAY WALLS; SURFACE ROUGHNESS; TURBULENCE; WIND TUNNELS;

AVERAGE CONCENTRATION; LAGRANGIAN INTEGRAL TIME SCALE; NEUTRAL BOUNDARY LAYER; PASSIVE SCALARS; PLUME SPREADING; ROUGH-WALL TURBULENT BOUNDARY LAYERS; TURBULENCE CHARACTERISTICS; WIND TUNNEL EXPERIMENT;

ATMOSPHERIC THERMODYNAMICS;

ATMOSPHERIC PLUME; CONCENTRATION (COMPOSITION); LAGRANGIAN ANALYSIS; NUMERICAL MODEL; SURFACE ROUGHNESS; TRACER; TURBULENT BOUNDARY LAYER; VERTICAL PROFILE;

EID: 77952422978     PISSN: 00068314     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10546-010-9481-4     Document Type: Article

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