Sunset decay of the convective turbulence with Large-Eddy Simulation under realistic conditions

Physica A: Statistical Mechanics and its Applications

Volumn 392, Issue 19, 2013, Pages 4481-4490

  Rizza, U ^a   Miglietta, M M ^a   Degrazia, G A ^b   Acevedo, O C ^b   Marques Filho, E P ^c  

^a INSTITUTE OF ATMOSPHERIC SCIENCES AND CLIMATE   (Italy)

^b FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF SANTA MARIA   (Brazil)

^c FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF RIO DE JANEIRO   (Brazil)

Author keywords

Large Eddy; LES decay; Simulation turbulence; Sunset turbulence

Indexed keywords

BOUNDARY LAYERS; DECAY (ORGANIC); HEAT FLUX; KINETIC ENERGY; KINETICS; LARGE EDDY SIMULATION; METEOROLOGY; TURBULENCE;

CONVECTIVE TURBULENCE; COOPERATIVE ATMOSPHERE-SURFACE EXCHANGE STUDIES; LARGE EDDY; LARGE-SCALE ADVECTION; LES DECAY; REALISTIC ENVIRONMENTS; TRANSITION BOUNDARY LAYERS; TURBULENT KINETIC ENERGY;

ATMOSPHERIC THERMODYNAMICS;

EID: 84880333723     PISSN: 03784371     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.physa.2013.05.009     Document Type: Article

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