Flow over Hills: A Large-Eddy Simulation of the Bolund Case

Boundary-Layer Meteorology

Volumn 148, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 177-194

  Diebold, Marc ^a   Higgins, Chad ^b   Fang, Jiannong ^a   Bechmann, Andreas ^c   Parlange, Marc B ^a  

^a EPFL   (Switzerland)

^b OREGON STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF DENMARK   (Denmark)

Author keywords

Bolund Hill; Complex terrain; Computational fluid dynamics; Immersed boundary method; Large eddy simulation; Navier Stokes equation; Topography; Validation of computational fluid dynamics models

Indexed keywords

A1. LARGEEDDY SIMULATIONS (LES); ATMOSPHERIC SIMULATIONS; BOLUND HILL; COMPLEX TERRAINS; COMPLEX TOPOGRAPHIES; COMPUTATIONAL FLUID DYNAMICS MODELS; IMMERSED BOUNDARY METHODS; MOUNTAINOUS REGIONS;

COMPUTATIONAL FLUID DYNAMICS; LARGE EDDY SIMULATION; NAVIER STOKES EQUATIONS; SURFACE ROUGHNESS; WEATHER FORECASTING; WIND POWER;

TOPOGRAPHY;

BOUNDARY LAYER; COMPLEX TERRAIN; COMPUTATIONAL FLUID DYNAMICS; HILL; LARGE EDDY SIMULATION; MOUNTAIN REGION; NAVIER-STOKES EQUATIONS; NUMERICAL MODEL; SPATIAL RESOLUTION; SURFACE ROUGHNESS; TOPOGRAPHY; WIND FIELD; WIND TUNNEL;

DENMARK;

EID: 84878901499     PISSN: 00068314     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10546-013-9807-0     Document Type: Article

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