Mechanistic Investigation of Small-Scale Air-Sea Coupled Dynamics Using LES

Abstract

Our long-term objective is to obtain a more thorough understanding of the dynamics of coupled boundary layers air-sea transfer (CBLAST) at relatively small spatial scales, by performing direct numerical simulation (DNS) and large-eddy simulation (LES) together with large-wave simulation (LWS) for both air and ocean turbulent flows with surface waves. The primary focus and an ultimate goal is to obtain the physical foundation for the characterization and parameterization of the momentum, mass and heat transfer within the atmosphere-ocean wave boundary layer (WBL).

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Sep 30, 2005
Accession Number
ADA572825

Entities

People

  • Dick K P Yue

Organizations

  • Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Energy and Power Technologies

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Boundaries
  • Boundary Layer
  • Computational Fluid Dynamics
  • Computational Science
  • Dynamics
  • Energy Transfer
  • Flow
  • Fluid Dynamics
  • Fluid Flow
  • Heat Transfer
  • Large Eddy Simulation
  • Layers
  • Ocean Waves
  • Physics
  • Turbulent Flow
  • Water Waves
  • Waves

Fields of Study

  • Environmental science

Readers

  • Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD)
  • Ocean-Atmosphere Mesoscale Modeling, Data Assimilation, and Flux Boundary Layers