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A new Richardson number formulation, Ri_new, is introduced to improve the diagnosis of turbulence in the stratified free atmosphere, particularly near jet stream regions. The formulation is derived from the turbulent kinetic energy budget…

Atmospheric and Oceanic Physics · Physics 2026-02-26 Mohamed Foudad , Miguel A. C. Teixeira , Paul D. Williams , Thorsten Kaluza

The turbulent boundary layer (TBL) development over an air cavity is experimentally studied using planar particle image velocimetry. The present flow, representative of those typically encountered in ship air lubrication, resembles the…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2024-12-04 Abhirath Anand , Lina Nikolaidou , Christian Poelma , Angeliki Laskari

The logarithmic law of mean temperature profile has been observed in different regions in Rayleigh-B\'enard turbulence. However, how thermal plumes correlate to the log law of temperature and how the velocity profile changes with pressure…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2019-10-08 Hong-Yue Zou , Wen-Feng Zhou , Xi Chen , Yun Bao , Jun Chen , Zhen-Su She

The complex interaction between turbulence and the free surface in boundary layer shear flow created by a vertical surface-piercing wall is considered. A laboratory-scale device was built that utilizes a surface-piercing stainless steel…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2017-03-29 Nathan Washuta , Naeem Masnadi , James H. Duncan

The fluid dynamics video considers an array of two NREL 5-MW turbines separated by seven rotor diameters in a neutral atmospheric boundary layer (ABL). The neutral atmospheric boundary-layer flow data were obtained from a precursor ABL…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2013-10-15 Jessica L. Bashioum , Pankaj K. Jha , Sven Schmitz , Earl P. N. Duque

A prediction model for the turbulent kinetic energy (TKE) induced by tidal-currents is proposed as a function of the barotropic velocity only, along with a robust method evaluating the different parameters involved using Acoustic Doppler…

A combination of methods originating from non-stationary timeseries analysis is applied to two datasets of near surface turbulence in order to gain insights on the non-stationary enhancement mechanism of intermittent turbulence in the…

Atmospheric and Oceanic Physics · Physics 2019-09-04 Nikki Vercauteren , Vyacheslav Boyko , Amandine Kaiser , Danijel Belušić

So-called engineering or analytical wind farm flow solvers typically build upon two submodels: one for the velocity deficit and one for the wake-added turbulence intensity. While velocity deficit modelling has received considerable…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2026-05-01 Frédéric Blondel , Erwan Jézéquel , Helen Schottenhamml , Majid Bastankhah

For controlling the noise radiated from vibrating structures excited by turbulent boundary layer (TBL) it is relevant to develop numerical tools for understanding how the structure reacts to TBL excitation. Usually, the wall pressure…

Applied Physics · Physics 2024-09-23 Laurent Maxit , Marion Berton , Christian Audoly , Daniel Juvé

The solar wind (SW) and local interstellar medium (LISM) are turbulent media. Their interaction is governed by complex physical processes and creates heliospheric regions with significantly different properties in terms of particle…

We present and test the coupled wake boundary layer (CWBL) model that describes the distribution of the power output in a wind-farm. The model couples the traditional, industry-standard wake model approach with a "top-down" model for the…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2015-06-19 Richard J. A. M. Stevens , Dennice F. Gayme , Charles Meneveau

This article investigates penetrative turbulence in the atmospheric boundary layer. Using a large eddy simulation approach, we study characteristics of the mixed layer with respect to surface heat flux variations in the range from 231.48…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2015-05-05 Jahrul M. Alam , M. Alamgir Hossain

We study the transition to turbulence in the asymptotic suction boundary layer (ASBL) by direct numerical simulation. Tracking the motion of trajectories intermediate between laminar and turbulent states we can identify the invariant object…

The complex interactions between turbulence and the free surface, including air entrainment processes, in boundary layer shear flows created by vertical surface-piercing plates are considered. A laboratory-scale device was built that…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2016-06-17 Nathan Washuta , Naeem Masnadi , James H. Duncan

Traditionally, turbulence energetics is characterized by turbulent kinetic energy (TKE) and modelled using solely the TKE budget equation. In stable stratification, TKE is generated by the velocity shear and expended through viscous…

Atmospheric and Oceanic Physics · Physics 2009-11-13 S. S. Zilitinkevich , T. Elperin , N. Kleeorin , I. Rogachevskii , I. Esau , T. Mauritsen , M. W. Miles

The complexity of the atmosphere endows it with the property of turbulence by virtue of which, wind speed variations in the atmospheric boundary layer (ABL) exhibit highly irregular fluctuations that persist over a wide range of temporal…

Atmospheric and Oceanic Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Rajesh G. Kavasseri † ~ , Radhakrishnan Nagarajan

Turbulent heat and freshwater transport at ice-ocean interfaces controls glacier and iceberg melt rates, yet the underlying physics remains poorly constrained. Parameterizations that assume shear boundary layer scaling are commonly used,…

Site-specific flow and turbulence information are needed for various practical applications, ranging from aerodynamic/aeroelastic modeling for wind turbine design to optical diffraction calculations. Even though highly desirable, collecting…

Atmospheric and Oceanic Physics · Physics 2013-07-10 Yao Wang , Sukanta Basu , Lance Manuel

This study proposes a newly-developed deep-learning-based method to generate turbulent inflow conditions for spatially-developing turbulent boundary layer (TBL) simulations. A combination of a transformer and a multiscale-enhanced…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2023-03-22 Mustafa Z. Yousif , Meng Zhang , Linqi Yu , Ricardo Vinuesa , HeeChang Lim

The SWUF-3D drone fleet is used in the atmospheric boundary layer (ABL) for in situ turbulence measurements of complex flows, such as in mountainous terrain or wind turbine wakes. Previous calibrations for measuring vertical wind speed $w$…

Atmospheric and Oceanic Physics · Physics 2026-03-23 Johannes Kistner , Julian Jüchter , Norman Wildmann