Quality and reliability of LES of convective scalar transfer at high Reynolds numbers

International Journal of Heat and Mass Transfer

Volumn 102, Issue , 2016, Pages 959-970

  Li, Qi ^a   Bou Zeid, Elie ^a   Anderson, William ^b   Grimmond, Sue ^c   Hultmark, Marcus ^a  

^a Princeton University   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT DALLAS   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF READING   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Forced convective heat transfer; Large eddy simulation; Rough walls; Urban heat exchange

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC BOUNDARY LAYER; BOUNDARY LAYERS; HEAT CONVECTION; HEAT TRANSFER; MASS TRANSFER; QUAY WALLS; REYNOLDS NUMBER; STRUCTURES (BUILT OBJECTS); WALLS (STRUCTURAL PARTITIONS); WIND TUNNELS;

CONVECTIVE HEAT AND MASS TRANSFERS; DEVELOPMENT AND TESTING; FORCED CONVECTIVE HEAT TRANSFER; HEAT EXCHANGE; ROUGH WALLS; TWO-DIMENSIONAL ROUGHNESS; WIND TUNNEL EXPERIMENT; WIND TUNNEL MEASUREMENTS;

LARGE EDDY SIMULATION;

EID: 84978286095     PISSN: 00179310     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ijheatmasstransfer.2016.06.093     Document Type: Article

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