Analyses of Turbulence in the Neutrally and Stably Stratified Planetary Boundary Layer

• Main Author: Ansorge, Cedrick (Author)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Springer, 2017.
• Series: Springer Theses, Recognizing Outstanding Ph.D. Research,
• Subjects: Earth sciences.; Meteorology.; Atmospheric sciences.; Fluids.; Earth Sciences.; Atmospheric Sciences.; Fluid- and Aerodynamics.; Numerical and Computational Physics, Simulation.

This thesis presents a study of strong stratification and turbulence collapse in the planetary boundary layer, opening a new avenue in this field. It is the first work to study all regimes of stratified turbulence in a unified simulation framework without a break in the paradigms for representation...

Table of Contents:

• Preliminaries
• Introduction
• Problem Formulation and Tools
• Numerics
• Discretization
• Overlapping communication and computation
• A Test Bed for the Numerical Tool
• Physics
• The neutrally stratified Ekman Layer
• Turbulence Regimes and Stability
• Flow Organization and Global Intermittency Under Strong Stratification
• Concluding Remarks._ Implications for the Study of the Atmospheric Boundary layer
• Résumé
• Appendices.