Large-eddy simulation of the stable boundary layer with explicit filtering and reconstruction turbulence modeling

Journal of the Atmospheric Sciences

Volumn 68, Issue 9, 2011, Pages 2142-2155

  Zhou, Bowen ^a   Chow, Fotini Katopodes ^a  

^a Univ of California   (United States)

Author keywords

Boundary layer; Eddies; Kinetic energy; Stability; Turbulence

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC STABILITY; DYNAMIC RECONSTRUCTION MODELS; EDDIES; EDDY VISCOSITY MODEL; FINE RESOLUTION; GRADIENT BASED; HIGH RESOLUTION SIMULATIONS; HIGHER RESOLUTION; RESOLUTION REQUIREMENTS; SIMILARITY THEORY; STABLE BOUNDARY LAYER; STRONG STABILITY; SUBFILTER SCALE; SUBGRID SCALE STRESS; THEORETICAL FORMULATION; TURBULENCE MODELING; TURBULENCE STATISTICS; TURBULENT KINETIC ENERGY; TURBULENT STRESS; WORKING RANGE;

ATMOSPHERIC BOUNDARY LAYER; ATMOSPHERIC TURBULENCE; BOUNDARY LAYERS; CONVERGENCE OF NUMERICAL METHODS; FLOW STRUCTURE; KINETIC ENERGY; LARGE EDDY SIMULATION; STABILITY; TROPOSPHERE; TURBULENCE;

ATMOSPHERIC THERMODYNAMICS;

BOUNDARY LAYER; EDDY; FINITE DIFFERENCE METHOD; FLOW STRUCTURE; KINETIC ENERGY; LARGE EDDY SIMULATION; TURBULENCE;

EID: 80053189260     PISSN: 00224928     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/2011JAS3693.1     Document Type: Article

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