Large-eddy simulation of the atmospheric boundary layer

R Stoll, JA Gibbs, ST Salesky, W Anderson… - Boundary-Layer …, 2020 - Springer
Over the last 50 years the large-eddy simulation (LES) technique has developed into one of
the most prominent numerical tools used to study transport processes in the atmospheric …

Large-scale structures of wall-bounded turbulence in single-and two-phase flows: advancing understanding of the atmospheric surface layer during sandstorms

H Liu, X Zheng - Flow, 2021 - cambridge.org
In recent years, observations of the atmospheric surface layer have greatly promoted
research on high-Reynolds-number wall-bounded turbulence, especially observations of …

Amplitude modulation in particle-laden atmospheric surface layers

H Liu, X He, X Zheng - Journal of Fluid Mechanics, 2023 - cambridge.org
Particle effects on the amplitude modulation are investigated in this study based on
observational data with various mass loading acquired from long-term measurements of …

Influence of atmospheric stability on wind-turbine wakes with a certain hub-height turbulence intensity

B Du, M Ge, C Zeng, G Cui, Y Liu - Physics of Fluids, 2021 - pubs.aip.org
Atmospheric stability can significantly influence the spreading of wind-turbine wakes. The
previous studies often coupled atmospheric stability with the turbulence intensity and …

Proper orthogonal decomposition of large-eddy simulation data over real urban morphology

Y Liu, CH Liu, GP Brasseur, CYH Chao - Sustainable Cities and Society, 2023 - Elsevier
Proper orthogonal decomposition (POD) is implemented to the atmospheric surface layer
(ASL) over real urban morphology based on the data of large-eddy simulation (LES) with …

Wavelet analysis of the atmospheric flows over real urban morphology

Y Liu, CH Liu, GP Brasseur, CYH Chao - Science of the Total Environment, 2023 - Elsevier
Winds are the basic forces for atmospheric transport such as pollutant removal and
pedestrian thermal comfort. The transport capability is commonly measured in terms of …

Coherent structures modulate atmospheric surface layer flux-gradient relationships

ST Salesky, W Anderson - Physical Review Letters, 2020 - APS
Since its inception in the 1940s, Monin-Obukhov similarity theory (MOST), which relates
turbulent fluxes to mean vertical gradients in the lower atmosphere, has become ubiquitous …

Surface thermal heterogeneities and the atmospheric boundary layer: the relevance of dispersive fluxes

F Margairaz, ER Pardyjak, M Calaf - Boundary-Layer Meteorology, 2020 - Springer
While the increasing availability of computational power is enabling finer grid resolutions in
numerical-weather-prediction models, representing land–atmosphere exchange processes …

On the influence of large-scale atmospheric motions on near-surface turbulence: Comparison between flows over low-roughness and tall vegetation canopies

S Dupont, EG Patton - Boundary-Layer Meteorology, 2022 - Springer
Abstract Contrary to Monin–Obukhov similarity theory, near-surface atmospheric turbulence
depends not only on local motions but also on larger-scale motions associated with the full …

Non-stationary boundary layers

L Mahrt, E Bou-Zeid - Boundary-Layer Meteorology, 2020 - Springer
The literature includes a wide variety of definitions or perceptions of non-stationarity. Non-
stationarity can be expressed in terms of turbulence statistics or variability of the forcing of …