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Article Dans Une Revue Flow, Turbulence and Combustion Année : 2011

Numerical simulation of coherent structures over plant canopy

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This paper reports large eddy simulations of the interaction between an atmospheric boundary layer and a canopy (representing a forest cover). The problem is studied for a homogeneous configuration representing the situation encountered above a continuous forest cover, as well as for a heterogeneous configuration representing the situation similar to an edge or a clearing in a forest. The numerical results reproduces correctly all the main characteristics of this flow as reported in the literature: the formation of a first generation of coherent structures aligned transversally with the wind flow direction, the reorganization and the deformation of these vortex tubes into horse-shoe structures. The results obtained when introducing a discontinuity in the canopy (reproducing a clearing or a fuel break in a forest), are compared with the experimental data collected in a wind tunnel; here, the results confirm the existence of a strong turbulence activity inside the canopy at a distance equal to 8 times the height of the canopy, referenced in the literature as the Enhance Gust Zone (EGZ) characterized by a local peak of the skewness factor.

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hal-01022574 , version 1 (10-07-2014)

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Konstantin Gavrilov, Gilbert Accary, Dominique Morvan, Dimitry Lyubimov, Sofiane Meradji, et al.. Numerical simulation of coherent structures over plant canopy. Flow, Turbulence and Combustion, 2011, 86 (1), pp.89-111. ⟨10.1007/s10494-010-9294-z⟩. ⟨hal-01022574⟩
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