Direct numerical simulation of a vigorously heated low Reynolds number convective boundary layer
Coleman, Gary N. and Ferziger, J.H. (1996) Direct numerical simulation of a vigorously heated low Reynolds number convective boundary layer. Dynamics of Atmospheres and Oceans, 24, (1-4), 85-94. (doi:10.1016/0377-0265(95)00456-4).
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Computations of the buoyantly unstable Ekman layer are performed at low Reynolds number. The results are obtained by directly solving the three-dimensional time-dependen Navier-Stokes equations with the Boussinesq buoyancy approximation, resolving all relevant scales of motion (no turbulence closure is needed). The flow is capped by a stable temperature inversion and heated from below at a rate that produces an inversion-height to Obukhov-length ratio −zi/L* = 32. Temperature and velocity variance profiles are found to agree well with those from an earlier vigorously heated under-resolved computation at higher Reynolds number, and with experimental data of Deardorff and Willis (Boundary-Layer Meteorol., 32: 205–236, 1985). Significant helicity is found in the layer, and helical convection patterns of the scale of the inversion height are observed
| Item Type: | Article |
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| ISSNs: | 0377-0265 (print) |
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| Subjects: | T Technology > TL Motor vehicles. Aeronautics. Astronautics |
| Divisions: | University Structure - Pre August 2011 > School of Engineering Sciences |
| Item ID: | 71974 |
| Date Deposited: | 13 Jan 2010 |
| Last Modified: | 25 Apr 2013 20:03 |
| Contributors: | Coleman, Gary N. (Author) Ferziger, J.H. (Author) |
| Date: | 1996 |
| Status: | Published |
| Contact Email Address: | g.n.coleman@soton.ac.uk |
| URI: | http://eprints.soton.ac.uk/id/eprint/71974 |
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