Turbulence in the Stable Boundary Layer at Higher Richardson Numbers

Boundary-Layer Meteorology

Volumn 139, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 225-240

  Ferrero, Enrico ^a   Quan, Lihong ^a   Massone, Davide ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EASTERN PIEDMONT   (Italy)

Author keywords

Critical Richardson number; Non local turbulence; Stable boundary layer; Third order moments

Indexed keywords

ALGEBRAIC MODELS; CRITICAL RICHARDSON NUMBER; CRITICAL VALUE; DAMPING FACTORS; NON-LOCAL TURBULENCE; NONLOCALITIES; NUMERICAL MODELS; NUMERICAL SIMULATION; RICHARDSON NUMBER; SECOND ORDERS; SECOND-ORDER EQUATION; SECOND-ORDER MODELS; STABLE BOUNDARY LAYER; THIRD ORDER MOMENT; THIRD-ORDER; TIME-SCALES; TUNNEL FLOW;

ADAPTIVE FILTERING; ALGEBRA; BOUNDARY LAYERS; BUOYANCY; COMPUTER SIMULATION; MIXED CONVECTION; TURBULENCE;

ATMOSPHERIC THERMODYNAMICS;

BOUNDARY LAYER; COMPUTER SIMULATION; NUMERICAL MODEL; RICHARDSON NUMBER; TURBULENT FLOW; WIND FIELD; WIND TUNNEL;

EID: 79953299293     PISSN: 00068314     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10546-010-9581-1     Document Type: Article

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