Evaluation of the atmospheric RAMS model in an obstacle resolving configuration

Environmental Fluid Mechanics

Volumn 10, Issue 5, 2010, Pages 555-576

  Castelli, Silvia Trini ^a   Reisin, Tamir G ^b  

^a CNR   (Italy)

^b SOREQ NUCLEAR RESEARCH CENTER   (Israel)

Author keywords

Atmospheric model; Model evaluation; Obstacles resolving model; Turbulence closures

Indexed keywords

AMBIENT AIR; ATMOSPHERIC MODELING; ATMOSPHERIC WAVE; BOUNDARY CONDITION; BUILDING; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DATA SET; EXPERIMENTAL STUDY; FLOW MODELING; GEOMETRY; KINETIC ENERGY; MODEL VALIDATION; TURBULENCE; TURBULENT BOUNDARY LAYER; WIND TUNNEL; WIND WAVE;

EID: 77956445648     PISSN: 15677419     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10652-010-9167-y     Document Type: Article

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