Turbulence

An Analytical Verification Test for Numerically Simulated Convective Flow Above a Thermally Heterogeneous Surface
An analytical solution of the Boussinesq equations for the motion of a viscous stably stratified fluid driven by a surface thermal …
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Measurements of the Temperature Structure-Function Parameters with a Small Unmanned Aerial System Compared with a Sodar
The structure function is often used to quantify the intensity of spatial inhomogeneities within turbulent flows. Here, the Small …
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Methods for Evaluating the Temperature Structure-Function Parameter Using Unmanned Aerial Systems and Large-Eddy Simulation
Small-scale turbulent fluctuations of temperature are known to affect the propagation of both electromagnetic and acoustic waves. …
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Revisiting Surface Heat-Flux and Temperature Boundary Conditions in Models of Stably Stratified Boundary-Layer Flows
Two formulations of the surface thermal boundary condition commonly employed in numerical modelling of atmospheric stably stratified …
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Effects of Temporal Discretization on Turbulence Statistics and Spectra in Numerically Simulated Convective Boundary Layers
Six state-of-the-art large-eddy simulation codes were compared in Fedorovich et al. (Preprints, 16th American Meteorological Society …
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A Time Series Sodar Simulator Based on Large-Eddy Simulation
A sodar simulator capable of producing time series data emulating sodar signals has been developed and tested. The atmospheric fields …
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Comparison of Convective Boundary Layer Velocity Spectra Retrieved from Large-Eddy-Simulation and Weather Research and Forecasting Model Data
As computing capabilities expand, operational and research environments are moving toward the use of finescale atmospheric numerical …
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