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

Abstract

The long-term goal is to understand the detailed mechanisms of coupled boundary layers air-sea transfer (CBLAST) by performing DNS/LES of both air and ocean turbulent flows with coupled free-surface boundary conditions. The primary focus and an ultimate object 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, 2002
Accession Number
ADA627388

Entities

People

  • Dick K P Yue

Organizations

  • Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Energy and Power Technologies

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Atmospheres
  • Boundaries
  • Boundary Layer
  • Computational Science
  • Dynamics
  • Energy
  • Energy Transfer
  • Equations
  • Flow
  • Fluid Flow
  • Heat Transfer
  • Layers
  • Ocean Waves
  • Physics
  • Turbulent Flow
  • Water Waves
  • Waves

Fields of Study

  • Environmental science
  • Physics

Readers

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