Turbulent Flow and Large Surface Wave Events in the Marine Boundary Layers

Abstract

A massively parallel large-eddy simulation (LES) code for atmospheric planetary boundary layers (PBLs) above moving and stationary waves is described.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Aug 22, 2013
Accession Number
ADA586842

Entities

People

  • James C. McWilliams
  • Peter P Sullivan

Organizations

  • University Corporation for Atmospheric Research

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Energy and Power Technologies
  • Ground and Sea Platforms

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Atmospheric Motion
  • Birds
  • Boundary Layer
  • Buoyancy
  • Computational Fluid Dynamics
  • Computational Science
  • Coordinate Systems
  • Flow Visualization
  • Fluid Dynamics
  • Fluid Flow
  • Fluid Mechanics
  • Mechanics
  • Military Research
  • Three Dimensional
  • Turbulence
  • Two Dimensional
  • Wind Turbines

Fields of Study

  • Environmental science
  • Physics

Readers

  • Atmospheric Science / Meteorology, specifically Wind Wave Turbulence.
  • Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD)
  • Ocean-Atmosphere Mesoscale Modeling, Data Assimilation, and Flux Boundary Layers