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An octree-based adaptive semi-Lagrangian free surface flow solver

A numerical method based on an adaptive octree space discretization for the simulation of 3D free-surface fluid flows is proposed. The Navier-Stokes equations are solved with a time-splitting scheme, which decouples advection from diffusion/incompressibili ...

EPFL2016

Accurate prediction of atmospheric boundary layer (ABL) flow and its interaction with urban surfaces is critical for understanding the transport of momentum and scalars within and above cities. This, in turn, is essential for predicting the local climate a ...

2015

Flow and Temperature Dynamics in the Hydrologic Response: Travel Time Formulation and Application to Alpine Catchments

Andrea Rinaldo, Michael Lehning, Bettina Schaefli, Francesco Comola

We present a travel time formulation of water and energy transport at sub-catchment scale, resulting in a closed form solution for water temperature evolution in the subsoil compartment. The derived equations are implemented in Alpine3D, a physically-based ...

2014

Flow and Temperature Dynamics in the Hydrologic Response of Alpine Catchments: Travel Time Formulation and Geomorphologic Signatures

Andrea Rinaldo, Michael Lehning, Bettina Schaefli, Francesco Comola

We present a travel time formulation of water and energy transport at sub-catchment scale. The derived equations are implemented in Alpine3D, a physically-based model of snow processes, which provides the necessary boundary conditions to perform hydro-ther ...

2014

The role of the sheath in magnetized plasma fluid turbulence

Paolo Ricci, Joaquim Loizu Cisquella, Sébastien Jolliet, Federico David Halpern, Annamaria Mosetto

In the sheath region at the interface between plasmas and solid surfaces, quasi-neutrality and, in the case of magnetized plasmas, drift-ordering are violated. These two assumptions are typically made in plasma fluid models; the presence of a plasma-wall t ...

2013

Measured and Estimated Water Vapor Advection in the Atmospheric Surface Layer

Valentin Simeonov, Martin Froidevaux, Marc Parlange, Chad Higgins, Eric Richard Pardyjak

The flux of water vapor due to advection is measured using high-resolution Raman lidar that was orientated horizontally across a land-lake transition. At the same time, a full surface energy balance is performed to assess the impact of scalar advection on ...

American Meteorological Society2013

The dam-break problem for concentrated suspensions of neutrally buoyant particles

Christophe Ancey, Nicolas Andreini, Gaël Epely Chauvin

This paper addresses the dam-break problem for particle suspensions, that is, the flow of a finite volume of suspension released suddenly down an inclined flume. We were concerned with concentrated suspensions made up of neutrally-buoyant non-colloidal par ...

Cambridge University Press2013

Relative importance of advective heat transport and boundary layer decoupling in the melt dynamics of a patchy snow cover

Michael Lehning

For a patchy snow cover the advective heat transport and the near-surface boundary layer decoupling, which have an opposite effect on sensible heat transport onto the snow surface, are both expected to increase in magnitude. The main aim of this study is t ...

Elsevier Sci Ltd2013

Generalized Flows Satisfying Spatial Boundary Conditions

Boris Buffoni

In a region D in R-2 or R-3, the classical Euler equation for the regular motion of an inviscid and incompressible fluid of constant density is given by partial derivative(t)v + (v . del(x))v = -del(xP), div(x)v = 0, where v(t, x) is the velocity of the pa ...

Birkhäuser-Verlag, Springer2012

Based on the one-dimensional Biot consolidation equations, this paper developed an advection-diffusion equation that incorporates saturation, compressibility of the pore fluid and longitudinal dispersivity of the solute transport in an unsaturated, deformi ...

Elsevier2012

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