Download or read book Theoretical and Numerical Studies of Atmospheric Boundary layer Flows Over Complex Terrain written by Marco Giovanni Giometto and published by . This book was released on 2016 with total page 113 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Mots-clés de l'auteur: anabatic flow ; direct numerical simulation ; dynamic surface roughness model ; energy budget ; immersed boundary method ; katabatic flow ; large-eddy simulation ; Prandtl model ; rough surfaces ; turbulence.
Download or read book Theoretical Studies of the Atmospheric Boundary Layer written by Norman K. Wagner and published by . This book was released on 1966 with total page 179 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Numerical Modelling of Atmospheric Boundary layer Flows Over Complex Terrain written by Massimiliano Burlando and published by . This book was released on 2004 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Modelling Of Atmospheric Flow Fields written by Demetri P Lalas and published by World Scientific. This book was released on 1996-01-11 with total page 768 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume is a collection of lectures given at the two colloquia on atmospheric flows over complex terrain with applications to wind energy and air pollution, organized and sponsored by ICTP in Trieste, Italy. The colloquia were the result of the recognition of the importance of renewable energy sources, an important aspect which grows yearly as the environmental problems become more pronounced and their effects more direct and intense, while at the same time, the wise management of the Earth's evidently limited resources becomes imperative.It is divided into two main parts. The first, which comprises Chaps. 1 to 4, presents the structure of the atmospheric boundary layer with emphasis in the region adjacent to the ground. The second, Chaps. 5 to 10, discusses methods for the numerical computation of the wind field on an arbitrary terrain. The unique feature of this book is that it does not stop at the theoretical exposition of the analytical and numerical techniques but includes a number of codes, in a diskette, where the mechanisms and techniques presented in the main part are implemented and can be run by the reader. Some of the codes are of instructional value while others can be utilized for simple operational work.Some of the lecturers are: D N Asimakopoulos, C I Aspliden, V R Barros, A K Blackadar, G A Dalu, A de Baas, D Etling, G Furlan, D P Lalas, P J Mason, C F Ratto and F B Smith.
Download or read book The Atmospheric Boundary Layer written by J. R. Garratt and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1994-04-21 with total page 340 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The book gives a comprehensive and lucid account of the science of the atmospheric boundary layer (ABL). There is an emphasis on the application of the ABL to numerical modelling of the climate. The book comprises nine chapters, several appendices (data tables, information sources, physical constants) and an extensive reference list. Chapter 1 serves as an introduction, with chapters 2 and 3 dealing with the development of mean and turbulence equations, and the many scaling laws and theories that are the cornerstone of any serious ABL treatment. Modelling of the ABL is crucially dependent for its realism on the surface boundary conditions, and chapters 4 and 5 deal with aerodynamic and energy considerations, with attention to both dry and wet land surfaces and sea. The structure of the clear-sky, thermally stratified ABL is treated in chapter 6, including the convective and stable cases over homogeneous land, the marine ABL and the internal boundary layer at the coastline. Chapter 7 then extends the discussion to the cloudy ABL. This is seen as particularly relevant, since the extensive stratocumulus regions over the subtropical oceans and stratus regions over the Arctic are now identified as key players in the climate system. Finally, chapters 8 and 9 bring much of the book's material together in a discussion of appropriate ABL and surface parameterization schemes in general circulation models of the atmosphere that are being used for climate simulation.
Download or read book Boundary Layer Flows written by Vallampati Ramachandra Prasad and published by BoD – Books on Demand. This book was released on 2020-01-22 with total page 236 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Written by experts in the field, this book, "Boundary Layer Flows - Theory, Applications, and Numerical Methods" provides readers with the opportunity to explore its theoretical and experimental studies and their importance to the nonlinear theory of boundary layer flows, the theory of heat and mass transfer, and the dynamics of fluid. With the theory's importance for a wide variety of applications, applied mathematicians, scientists, and engineers - especially those in fluid dynamics - along with engineers of aeronautics, will undoubtedly welcome this authoritative, up-to-date book.
Download or read book A Numerical Study of Atmospheric Boundary Layer Dynamics Over Complex Terrain written by Nash'at Naveed Ahmad and published by . This book was released on 1996 with total page 198 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Theoretical Studies of the Atmospheric Boundary Layer Parts I iii written by Norman K. Wagner and published by . This book was released on 1966 with total page 179 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Three separate studies concerning flow over inhomogeneous terrain are presented. Two-dimensional nonlinear models were constructed and then integrated numerically. In the first study, the atmospheric boundary layer flow over terrain with a discontinuous variation in roughness was studied. A time dependent numerical model, using Blackadar's expression of mixing length and assuming no dynamic pressure effect and no vertical displacement of the zero velocity level at the lower boundary, was integrated until a steady-state situation was reached. The results agree with earlier theoretical work of Panofsky and Townsend and also with observations by Sterns and Lettau. The second study represents an attempt to solve a problem similar to the one just described using a steady-state model. An iterative method for solving the equations was derived. In addition, the dynamic pressure effect was also incorporated. The results show satisfactory agreement with those of Panofsky and Townsend. It is found that the dynamic pressure effect causes an apparent horizontal smoothing of the motion field. In the third study, the effect of an isolated hot surface (10 km wide) on the motion and temperature field is investigated. The model is time dependent and is based primarily on a sea breeze model by Estoque. As expected, the results show that the intensity of the upward motions which are induced is inversely proportional to the strength of the prevailing flow. The perturbations in both the temperature and velocity fields extend to several tens of kilometers downwind of the hot surface.
Download or read book Modelling of Atmospheric Flow Fields written by Demetri P. Lalas and published by World Scientific Publishing Company Incorporated. This book was released on 1996-01-01 with total page 753 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Flow and Transport in the Natural Environment Advances and Applications written by William L. Steffen and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2012-12-06 with total page 497 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume arises from an International Symposium on Flow and Transport in the Natural Environment held in Canberra, Australia, in September 1987. The meeting was hosted by the CSIRO Division of Environmental Mechanics (now the Centre for Environmental Mechanics) to mark the opening of the second stage of its headquarters, the F.C. Pye Field Environment Laboratory, twenty-one years after the opening of the first stage. Those twenty-one years have seen much progress in our understanding of the physics of the natural environment and the occasion provided an ideal opportunity to review advances in our knowledge of flow and transport phenomena, particularly with regard to flow and transport in soils, plants and the atmosphere. The contents of this volume are based very closely on the Symposium's program. Undoubtedly, our choices of topics were idiosyncratic, but we believe that those we have selected exhibit progress, innovation, and much scope for practical application. Rather than being encyclopaedic, we have sought to deal with thirteen selected topics in depth.
Download or read book Simulations of Neutral Atmospheric Boundary Layer Flow Over Complex Terrain with Comparisons to Field Measurements written by Yi Han and published by . This book was released on 2019 with total page 172 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The present work establishes a complete process to perform the micro-scale simulations of the neutral atmospheric boundary layer (ABL) flow over realistic terrain with multi-fidelity turbulence modeling approaches, and to validate the numerical predictions with the available on-site wind data. The complex terrain is located within the Chokecherry and Sierra Madre wind farm site which encompasses about 500 square kilometers of rugged and diverse terrain in south-central Wyoming. A robust conditional sampling procedure for the meteorological tower (met-tower) data to identify near-neutral ABL condition based on a criterion of the turbulence intensity is developed. The conditionally averaged wind data on fourteen met-towers is used for the model validation. The ABL flow simulations are conducted based on the OpenFOAM-based simulator for on/offshore wind farm applications (SOWFA) with both RANS and LES turbulence modeling approaches. The turbulent inflow is generated through a two-stage iterative approach using a precursor method. Appropriate boundary conditions are developed to adjust the real flow patterns over the complex terrain. In the RANS approach, a new formulation to calculate the production term in the transport equation for the turbulent kinetic energy (TKE) is developed to greatly reduce the commonly observed nonphysical near-surface TKE peak, and to improve the prediction of law-of-the-wall scaling in the near-surface region. In the LES approach, a low-dissipative, scale-selective discretization scheme is applied to the non-linear convection term of the filtered momentum equation. The aim is to reduce the numerical dissipation arising from the typically adopted upwind-biased schemes while maintaining second-order accuracy. The simulation results from both RANS and LES approaches are qualitatively compared with each other, and quantitatively compared to the conditional met-tower data in terms of the mean, standard deviation and direction of the wind at three about ground levels. The instantaneous flow field and turbulent structures are predicted by the LES approach. Overall, the wind statistic obtained by RANS and LES approaches show reasonable agreement compared to the met-tower data, except for some under-predictions at four met-tower located closer to the main ridge of the hill in a region of strong terrain variations.
Download or read book Atmospheric Boundary Layers written by Alexander Baklanov and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2007-10-30 with total page 239 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume presents peer-reviewed papers from the NATO Advanced Research Workshop on Atmospheric Boundary Layers held in April 2006. The papers are divided into thematic sessions: nature and theory of turbulent boundary layers; boundary-layer flows: modeling and applications to environmental security; nature, theory and modeling of boundary-layer flows; air flows within and above urban and other complex canopies: air-sea-ice interaction.
Download or read book Atmospheric Flow Fields written by G. Latini and published by . This book was released on 2012 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This e-book is a collection of chapters on practical and theoretical aspects of atmospheric flows over flat and complex terrain, with applications to air pollution and wind energy. It is divided into two main sections: the first section deals with atmospheric dynamics, and the second section explains the planetary boundary-layer parameterization that is a key issue for the definition of initial wind flow fields in meteorological and prognostic estimation of turbulence - "Ensemble Nowcasting" for short term prediction. The e-book is unique in that it features a combination of theoretical, analytical and numerical techniques, and tools where the techniques presented in the e-book are demonstrated and can be replicated by the reader. These practical tools can be used to easily test selected mathematical formulation or for performing a swift sensitivity analysis. The tools presented in this reference work focus primarily on mixing height evaluation, representative day identification and PBL characterization by elementary measurements evaluated at surface level. This e-book should be a valuable reference for readers interested in the meteorology of atmospheric wind flows.
Download or read book Atmospheric Boundary Layer Flows written by J. C. Kaimal and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 1994-01-06 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Boundary layer meteorology is the study of the physical processes that take place in the layer of air that is most influenced by the earth's underlying surface. This text/reference gives an uncomplicated view of the structure of the boundary layer, the instruments available for measuring its mean and turbulent properties, how best to make the measurements, and ways to process and analyze the data. The main applications of the book are in atmospheric modelling, wind engineering, air pollution, and agricultural meteorology. The authors have pioneered research on atmospheric turbulence and flow, and are noted for their contributions to the study of the boundary layer. This important work will interest atmospheric scientists, meteorologists, and students and faculty in these fields.
Download or read book The Atmosphere over Mountainous Regions written by Miguel A. C. Teixeira and published by Frontiers Media SA. This book was released on 2016-11-09 with total page 162 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Mountainous regions occupy a significant fraction of the Earth's continents and are characterized by specific meteorological phenomena operating on a wide range of scales. Being a home to large human populations, the impact of mountains on weather and hydrology has significant practical consequences. Mountains modulate the climate and create micro-climates, induce different types of thermally and dynamically driven circulations, generate atmospheric waves of various scales (known as mountain waves), and affect the boundary layer characteristics and the dispersion of pollutants. At the local scale, strong downslope winds linked with mountain waves (such as the Foehn and Bora) can cause severe damage. Mountain wave breaking in the high atmosphere is a source of Clear Air Turbulence, and lee wave rotors are a major near-surface aviation hazard. Mountains also act to block strongly stratified air layers, leading to the formation of valley cold air-pools (with implications for road safety, pollution, crop damage, etc.) and gap flows. Presently, neither the fine-scale structure of orographic precipitation nor the initiation of deep convection by mountainous terrain can be resolved adequately by regional-to global-scale models, requiring appropriate downscaling or parameterization. Additionally, the shortest mountain waves need to be parameterized in global weather and climate prediction models, because they exert a drag on the atmosphere. This drag not only decelerates the global atmospheric circulation, but also affects temperatures in the polar stratosphere, which control ozone depletion. It is likely that both mountain wave drag and orographic precipitation lead to non-trivial feedbacks in climate change scenarios. Measurement campaigns such as MAP, T-REX, Materhorn, COLPEX and i-Box provided a wealth of mountain meteorology field data, which is only starting to be explored. Recent advances in computing power allow numerical simulations of unprecedented resolution, e.g. LES modelling of rotors, mountain wave turbulence, and boundary layers in mountainous regions. This will lead to important advances in understanding these phenomena, as well as mixing and pollutant dispersion over complex terrain, or the onset and breakdown of cold air pools. On the other hand, recent analyses of global circulation biases point towards missing drag, especially in the southern hemisphere, which may be due to processes currently neglected in parameterizations. A better understanding of flow over orography is also crucial for a better management of wind power and a more effective use of data assimilation over complex terrain. This Research Topic includes contributions that aim to shed light on a number of these issues, using theory, numerical modelling, field measurements, and laboratory experiments.
Download or read book Thermally driven Mesoscale Flows and their Interaction with Atmospheric Boundary Layer Turbulence written by Jon Ander Arrillaga Mitxelena and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2020-06-11 with total page 169 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book presents developments of novel techniques and applies them in order to understand the interactions between thermally driven mesoscale flows (sea and mountain breezes) and the turbulent exchange within the atmospheric boundary layer. These interactions are not accurately reproduced in the meteorological models currently employed for weather forecasting. Consequently, important variables such as air temperature and wind speed are misrepresented. Also, the concentrations of relevant greenhouse gases such as CO2 are considerably affected by these interactions. By applying a systematic algorithm based on objective criteria (presented here), the thesis explores complete observational databases spanning up to 10 years. Further, it presents statistically significant and robust results on the topic, which has only been studied in a handful of cases in the extant literature. Lastly, by applying the algorithm directly to the outputs of the meteorological model, the thesis helps readers understand the processes discussed and reveals the biases in such models.
Download or read book Numerical Studies of Stably Stratified Planetary Boundary layer Flows Over Topography and Their Parameterization for Large Scale Numerical Model written by Jingnan Zhou and published by . This book was released on 1997 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
