Mean fields and fluctuation moments in unstably stratified turbulent boundary layers
- 1 March 1990
- journal article
- Published by Cambridge University Press (CUP) in Journal of Fluid Mechanics
- Vol. 212 (-1), 637-662
- https://doi.org/10.1017/s0022112090002129
Abstract
The earliest results concerning the turbulence structure in a turbulent boundary layer with very unstable thermal stratification are due to Prandtl (1932). These results were developed further and made more precise by Obukhov (1946, 1960), Monin & Obukhov (1954) and Priestley (1954, 1955, 1956, 1960). All of these authors dealt with a surface layer of the Earth's atmosphere on hot summer days. Such a layer is the most easily accessible example of an unstably stratified boundary layer and it will be the main concern in this paper too. The theoretical predictions by the above-mentioned authors seemed at first to be confirmed by the available experimental data but in the late 1960s it became clear that at least some of the predictions disagreed strongly with the experimental information.Keywords
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