Wind-tunnel study of surface boundary conditions for large-eddy simulation of turbulent flow past a rough-to-smooth surface transition

Journal of Turbulence

Volumn 11, Issue , 2010, Pages 1-17

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

^a UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA   (United States)

^b EPFL   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

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

Indexed keywords

BOUNDARY CONDITION; EXPERIMENTAL STUDY; FLOW MODELING; FLUID DYNAMICS; HOMOGENEITY; LARGE EDDY SIMULATION; NUMERICAL MODEL; OPTIMIZATION; PREDICTION; SHEAR STRESS; SURFACE ROUGHNESS; TURBULENCE; TURBULENT BOUNDARY LAYER; TURBULENT FLOW; VARIANCE ANALYSIS; WIND TUNNEL;

EID: 77955735234     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14685248     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/14685241003627760     Document Type: Article

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