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Second-Order Modeling Of Turbulent Diffusion in an Atmospheric Surface Layer

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The semiempirical theories of passive admixture diffusion in the thermally stratified atmospheric surface layer are developed on the basis of second-order closures. Four different models of equations for the second-order moments including concentration fluctuation are investigated. All these models lead to gradient transport hypotheses corresponding to specific forms of the eddy-diffusivity tensor Kij = Kij(z). The dependence of dimensionless eddy diffusivities kij= Kij(z)/KM(z) (where KM(z) = u2 */ [dU/dz] is the vertical eddy viscosity) on the dimensionless height ζ = z/L (where L is the Obukhov length) is determined for all the considered second-order closures.

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Tsarenko, V.M., Yaglom, A.M. (1992). Second-Order Modeling Of Turbulent Diffusion in an Atmospheric Surface Layer. In: Gatski, T.B., Speziale, C.G., Sarkar, S. (eds) Studies in Turbulence. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4612-2792-2_3

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