STUDIES OF THE THREE-DIMENSIONAL STRUCTURE OF THE PLANETARY BOUNDARY LAYER

Abstract

The broad objective of this research is to characterize the three dimensional structure of the planetary boundary layer. A series of eight investigations is reported, which fall into three types: ( 1) a comparison of experimental measurements against a theoretical model for the effects of solar heating at the earth' s surface, (Z) experimental measurements of the effect of variations in surface roughness on the dynamics of the air flow near the ground, and ( 3) a theoretical analysis of the steady-state, neutral wind profile for the entire planetary boundary layer.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Aug 01, 1961
Accession Number
AD0273053

Entities

People

  • Ernest C. Kung
  • Heinz H. Lettau
  • James H. Lienesch
  • John E. Kutzbach
  • Robert H. Burgy
  • Stephen M. Robinson

Organizations

  • University of Wisconsin–Madison

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Energy and Power Technologies
  • Space
  • Weapons Technologies

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Boundary Layer
  • Civil Engineering
  • Computational Fluid Dynamics
  • Computational Science
  • Energy Transfer
  • Fluid Dynamics
  • Geography
  • Heat Transfer
  • Measurement
  • Mechanics
  • Meteorology
  • Military Research
  • North America
  • Physics Laboratories
  • Three Dimensional
  • Turbulence
  • Wind Velocity

Fields of Study

  • Physics

Readers

  • Combustion and Flow Dynamics.
  • Oceanography.
  • Space Exploration and Orbital Mechanics.