Vertical Coherence of Turbulence in the Atmospheric Surface Layer: Connecting the Hypotheses of Townsend and Davenport

• Published in: Boundary-layer meteorology Vol. 172; no. 2; pp. 199 - 214
• Main Authors: Krug, Dominik, Baars, Woutijn J., Hutchins, Nicholas, Marusic, Ivan
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Dordrecht Springer Netherlands 01.08.2019; Springer; Springer Nature B.V
• Subjects: Analysis; Aspect ratio; Atmospheric boundary layer; Atmospheric Protection/Air Quality Control/Air Pollution; Atmospheric Sciences; Atmospheric turbulence; Boundary layer flow; Boundary layers; buildings; Buildings and facilities; Coherence; Computational fluid dynamics; Connecting; Data processing; Density stratification; Earth and Environmental Science; Earth Sciences; Electric power distribution; Empirical analysis; Flats (landforms); Fluid flow; Fluid mechanics; Frameworks; Hypotheses; Image processing; Meteorology; Planetary boundary layer; prediction; Research Article; Sabkhas; Salt flats; Scaling; Self-similarity; Sensitivity analysis; Stability; Statistics; Stratification; Surface boundary layer; Surface layers; troposphere; Turbulence; turbulent flow; Utah; Vortices; Wind; Wind engineering; Wind farms; Wind power; Utah; Atmospheric surface layer; Eddy structure; Atmospheric stability; Spectral coherence

Statistical descriptions of coherent flow motions in the atmospheric boundary layer have many applications in the wind engineering community. For instance, the dynamical characteristics of large-scale motions in wall turbulence play an important role in predicting the dynamical loads on buildings, o...