Large-Eddy Simulation of Stably-Stratified Flow Over a Steep Hill

Boundary-Layer Meteorology

Volumn 138, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 367-384

  Wan, Feng ^a   Porté Agel, Fernando ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA   (United States)

^b EPFL   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Large eddy simulation; Stable stratification; Subgrid scale modelling; Two dimensional hill

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC THERMODYNAMICS; BOUNDARY LAYERS; DYNAMIC MODELS; LAGRANGE MULTIPLIERS; LARGE EDDY SIMULATION; RESEARCH LABORATORIES; SHEAR FLOW; THERMAL STRATIFICATION; TURBULENCE; TURBULENT FLOW; WIND TUNNELS;

EDDY-DIFFUSIVITY MODELS; LAGRANGIAN DYNAMIC MODEL; STABLE STRATIFICATION; STRATIFIED BOUNDARY LAYERS; SUBGRID-SCALE MODELLING; TURBULENCE STATISTICS; TURBULENT BOUNDARY LAYER FLOW; WIND TUNNEL EXPERIMENT;

BOUNDARY LAYER FLOW;

BOUNDARY LAYER; DIFFUSIVITY; LARGE EDDY SIMULATION; SIMULATION; STRATIFICATION; STRATIFIED FLOW; TURBULENCE; WIND TUNNEL;

UNITED KINGDOM;

EID: 79951812990     PISSN: 00068314     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10546-010-9562-4     Document Type: Article

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