Shear driven purging of negatively buoyant fluid from trapezoidal depressions and cavities

Physics of Fluids

Volumn 24, Issue 2, 2012, Pages

  Kirkpatrick, M P ^a   Armfield, S W ^a   Williamson, N ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ASPECT RATIO; ATMOSPHERIC BOUNDARY LAYER; ATMOSPHERIC MOVEMENTS; ATMOSPHERIC THERMODYNAMICS; BEACHES; BOUNDARY LAYER FLOW; BUOYANCY; COMPUTATIONAL FLUID DYNAMICS; LARGE EDDY SIMULATION; NUMERICAL MODELS; STOCHASTIC SYSTEMS; TURBULENCE MODELS; TURBULENT FLOW;

DYNAMIC LOCALIZATION; DYNAMIC MIXED MODEL; DYNAMIC SMAGORINSKY MODELS; POLLUTANT DISPERSIONS; RECIRCULATING FLOW; ROTATING CHANNEL FLOWS; STABLE ATMOSPHERIC BOUNDARY LAYER; SUB-GRID SCALE MODELS;

STOCHASTIC MODELS;

EID: 84857751709     PISSN: 10706631     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1063/1.3680861     Document Type: Article

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37. See supplementary material at E-PHFLE6-24-003202 for movies generated from the numerical simulations showing temporal development of the flow.