A Large-Eddy Simulation Study of Turbulent Flow Over Multiscale Topography

Boundary-Layer Meteorology

Volumn 141, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 201-217

  Wan, Feng ^a   Porté Agel, Fernando ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA   (United States)

^b EPFL   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Large eddy simulation; Multiscale complex terrain; Subgrid scale topography

Indexed keywords

AERODYNAMIC ROUGHNESS; BAND PASS; CO-ORDINATE TRANSFORMATION; LAGRANGIAN DYNAMICS; LANDSCAPE EVOLUTIONS; LINEAR RELATION; LOG LOG SCALE; MULTI FRACTALS; MULTISCALES; NATURAL LANDSCAPES; NUMERICAL MODELS; PARAMETRIZATIONS; POWER LAW SCALINGS; SCALE-INVARIANCE PROPERTY; SIMULATION STUDIES; SOLID ON SOLIDS; SPATIAL RESOLUTION; SPATIAL SCALE; SUBGRID SCALE; TURBULENT STRESS;

ATMOSPHERIC BOUNDARY LAYER; ATMOSPHERIC THERMODYNAMICS; FLOW SIMULATION; LANDFORMS; LARGE EDDY SIMULATION; SPECTRAL DENSITY; TROPOSPHERE;

TOPOGRAPHY;

AERODYNAMICS; BOUNDARY LAYER; LAGRANGIAN ANALYSIS; LARGE EDDY SIMULATION; NUMERICAL MODEL; PARAMETERIZATION; SPATIAL RESOLUTION; TOPOGRAPHY; TURBULENT FLOW;

EID: 80053652826     PISSN: 00068314     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10546-011-9648-7     Document Type: Article

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