Atmospheric Flow over a Mountainous Region by a One-Way Coupled Approach Based on Reynolds-Averaged Turbulence Modelling

Boundary-Layer Meteorology

Volumn 159, Issue 2, 2016, Pages 407-437

  Rodrigues, C Veiga ^a   Palma, J M L M ^a   Rodrigues, A H ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PORTO   (Portugal)

Author keywords

Computational fluid dynamics; Mesoscale to microscale downscaling; Model chain approach; One way coupling; Wind energy

Indexed keywords

ANEMOMETERS; ATMOSPHERIC THERMODYNAMICS; BOUNDARY LAYERS; CHAINS; COMPUTATIONAL FLUID DYNAMICS; TURBULENCE; TWO PHASE FLOW; WIND; WIND POWER;

DOWN-SCALING; HORIZONTAL RESOLUTION; MESO-SCALE MODELING; MICRO SCALE MODELS; MOUNTAINOUS REGIONS; ONE-WAY COUPLINGS; TURBULENCE INTENSITY; WIND SPEED PREDICTION;

ATMOSPHERIC MOVEMENTS;

AIRFLOW; ANEMOMETER; COMPUTATIONAL FLUID DYNAMICS; DOWNSCALING; FLOW MODELING; MOUNTAIN REGION; REYNOLDS NUMBER; TURBULENCE; WIND POWER; WIND VELOCITY;

EID: 84949941284     PISSN: 00068314     EISSN: 15731472     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10546-015-0116-7     Document Type: Article

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