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

Abstract

Our long-term objective is to understand the small-scale dynamics of coupled boundary layers air-sea transfer (CBLAST) by performing DNS and LES of both air and ocean turbulent flows with coupled free-surface boundary conditions. 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, 2003
Accession Number
ADA630031

Entities

People

  • Dick K P Yue

Organizations

  • Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Energy and Power Technologies

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Boundary Layer
  • Computational Fluid Dynamics
  • Computational Science
  • Couette Flow
  • Dynamics
  • Energy
  • Energy Transfer
  • Equations
  • Flow
  • Heat Transfer
  • High Resolution
  • Kinetic Energy
  • Layers
  • Ocean Waves
  • Physics
  • Turbulent Flow
  • Water Waves

Fields of Study

  • Environmental science

Readers

  • Acoustical Oceanography.
  • Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD)
  • Fluid Dynamics.