Publications by Charles Vivant Ignacio Meneveau

Spatial Characteristics of Roughness Sublayer Mean Flow and Turbulence Over a Realistic Urban Surface

Jiannong Fang, Marc Parlange, Marco Giovanni Giometto, Charles Vivant Ignacio Meneveau

Single-point measurements from towers in cities cannot properly quantify the impact of all terms in the turbulent kinetic energy (TKE) budget and are often not representative of horizontally-averaged quantities over the entire urban domain. A series of lar ...

Springer2016

Large Eddy Simulation study of a fully developed thermal wind-turbine array boundary layer

Marc Parlange, Marc Calaf Bracons, Charles Vivant Ignacio Meneveau

When wind turbines are arranged in large wind farms, their efficiency decreases significantly due to wake effects and to complex turbulence interactions with the atmospheric boundary layer (ABL) [1]. For large wind farms whose length exceeds the ABL height ...

2011

Large eddy simulation study of fully developed wind-turbine array boundary layers

Marc Calaf Bracons, Charles Vivant Ignacio Meneveau

It is well known that when wind turbines are deployed in large arrays, their efficiency decreases due to complex interactions among themselves and with the atmospheric boundary layer (ABL). For wind farms whose length exceeds the height of the ABL by over ...

2010

Impact of Surface Flux Formulations and Geostrophic Forcing on Large-Eddy Simulations of Diurnal Atmospheric Boundary Layer Flow

Marc Parlange, Charles Vivant Ignacio Meneveau

The impact of surface flux boundary conditions and geostrophic forcing on multiday evolution of flow in the atmospheric boundary layer (ABL) was assessed using large-eddy simulations (LES). The LES investigations included several combinations of surface bo ...

American Meteorological Society2010

Field study of the dynamics and modelling of subgrid-scale turbulence in a stable atmospheric surface layer over a glacier

Marc Parlange, Wolf Hendrik Huwald, Chad Higgins, Charles Vivant Ignacio Meneveau

A field experiment – the Snow Horizontal Array Turbulence Study (SnoHATS) – has been performed over an extensive glacier in Switzerland in order to study small-scale turbulence in the stable atmospheric surface layer, and to investigate the role, dynamics ...

Cambridge University Press2010

Large eddy simulation of pollen transport in the atmospheric boundary layer

Marc Parlange, Charles Vivant Ignacio Meneveau

This paper presents a framework to simulate pollen dispersal by the wind based on the large eddy simulation(LES) technique. Important phenomena such as the pollen emission by the plants and the ground deposition are parameterized by the lower boundary cond ...

2009

POLLEN CLUMPING AND WIND DISPERSAL IN AN INVASIVE ANGIOSPERM

Marc Parlange, Michael David Martin, Charles Vivant Ignacio Meneveau

Pollen dispersal is a fundamental aspect of plant reproductive biology that maintains connectivity between spatially separated populations. Pollen clumping, a characteristic feature of insect-pollinated plants, is generally assumed to be a detriment to win ...

2009

Geometric Alignments of the Subgrid-Scale Force in the Atmospheric Boundary Layer

Marc Parlange, Chad Higgins, Charles Vivant Ignacio Meneveau

priori tests of subgrid-scale (SGS) models for large-eddy simulations (LES). The experimental arrangements and data collected have facilitated studies of variables such as the filtered strain rate, SGS stress and dissipation, and the eddy viscosity coeffic ...

2009

Subgrid-Scale Dynamics of Water Vapour, Heat, and Momentum over a Lake

Ulrich Lemmin, Nikki Vercauteren, Marc Parlange, Wolf Hendrik Huwald, Charles Vivant Ignacio Meneveau

We examine the dynamics of turbulence subgrid (or sub-filter) scales over a lake surface and the implications for large-eddy simulations (LES) of the atmospheric boundary layer. The analysis is based on measurements obtained during the Lake-Atmosphere Turb ...

2008

A Hybrid Spectral/Finite-Volume Algorithm for Large-Eddy Simulation of Scalars in the Atmospheric Boundary Layer

Marc Parlange, Charles Vivant Ignacio Meneveau

Pseudospectral methods are frequently used in the horizontal directions in large-eddy simulation of atmospheric flows. However, the same approach often creates unphysical oscillations for scalar fields if there are horizontal heterogeneities in the sources ...

2008

Turbulent kinetic energy budgets in a model canopy: comparisons between LES and wind-tunnel experiments

Marc Parlange, Charles Vivant Ignacio Meneveau

A comparative study of turbulence in a wind-tunnel model canopy is performed, using Large eddy simulation (LES) and experimental data from PIV and hot-wire anemom¬etry measurements. The model canopy is composed of thin cylindrical stalks. In the LES, these ...

2008

Scale dependence of subgrid-scale model coefficients: An a priori study

Nikki Vercauteren, Marc Parlange, Charles Vivant Ignacio Meneveau

Dynamic subgrid-scale models require an a priori assumption about the variation in the model coefficients with filter scale. The standard dynamic model assumes independence of scale while the scale dependent model assumes power-law dependence. In this pape ...

2008

The Effect of Filter Dimension on the Subgrid-Scale Stress, Heat Flux, and Tensor Alignments in the Atmospheric Surface Layer

Marc Parlange, Chad Higgins, Charles Vivant Ignacio Meneveau

In field experiments designed to study subgrid-scale parameterizations for large eddy simulation, the flow field is often measured and then filtered in two-dimensional planes. This two-dimensional filtering serves as a surrogate for three-dimensional filte ...

2007

The Local Structure of Atmospheric Turbulence and Its Effect on the Smagorinsky Model for Large Eddy Simulation

Marc Parlange, Charles Vivant Ignacio Meneveau

Phenomena such as large-scale shear, buoyancy, and the proximity to the ground surface significantly affect interactions among scales in atmospheric boundary layer turbulent flows. Hence, these phenomena impact parameters that enter subgrid-scale (SGS) par ...

2007

On the Parameterization of Surface Roughness at Regional Scales

Marc Parlange, Charles Vivant Ignacio Meneveau

A parameterization for surface roughness and blending height at regional scales, under neutral atmospheric stability, is studied and tested. The analysis is based on a suite of large-eddy simulations (LES) over surfaces with varying roughness height and mu ...

2007

Concentration profiles of particles settling in the neutral and stratified atmospheric boundary layer

Marc Parlange, Charles Vivant Ignacio Meneveau

An expression for the vertical equilibrium concentration profile of heavy particles, including the effects of canopy on the eddy diffusivity as well as corrections for atmospheric stability, is proposed. This expression is validated against measurements of ...

2007

Large-eddy simulation of plant canopy flows using plant-scale representation

Marc Parlange, Charles Vivant Ignacio Meneveau

Turbulent flow in a corn canopy is simulated using large-eddy simulation (LES) with a Lagrangian dynamic Smagorinsky model. A new numerical representation of plant canopies is presented that resolves approximately the local structure of plants and takes in ...

2007

A comparative quadrant analysis of turbulence in a plant canopy

Marc Parlange, Charles Vivant Ignacio Meneveau

Large-eddy simulation (LES) of turbulence in plant canopies has traditionally been validated using bulk statistical quantities such as mean velocity and variance profiles. However, turbulent exchanges between a plant canopy and the atmosphere are dominated ...

2007

Modeling turbulent flow over fractal trees with renormalized numerical simulation

Marc Parlange, Charles Vivant Ignacio Meneveau

High-Reynolds number flow over tree-like fractals is considered, with emphasis on the drag forces produced. Fractal objects display large scale-disparity and complexity while being amenable to a simple and standardized description. Hence, they offer an ele ...

2007

Numerical study of dynamic Smagorinsky models in large-eddy simulation of the atmospheric boundary layer: Validation in stable and unstable conditions

Marc Parlange, Charles Vivant Ignacio Meneveau, Vineet Kumar

Large-eddy simulation (LES) of atmospheric boundary layer (ABL) flow is performed over a homogeneous surface with different heat flux forcings. The goal is to test the performance of dynamic subgrid-scale models in a numerical framework and to compare the ...

American Geophysical Union2006