Advances in Geophysics (eBook)

Front Cover 1
Turbulent Diffusion in Environmental Pollution, Volume 18A 4
Copyright Page 5
Contents 6
List of Contributors 8
Foreword 12
Preface 14
Chapter 1. Turbulent Atmospheric Diffusion: The First Twenty-Five Years, 1920–1945 18
Chapter 2. Limitations of Gradient Transport Models in Random Walks and in Turbulence 42
Chapter 3. Addendum : Random Walks on Markovian Binary Velocity Fields 78
Chapter 4. Height of the Mixed Layer in the Stably Stratified Planetary Boundary Layer 90
Chapter 5. Transport of Heat across a Plane Turbulent Mixing Layer 110
Chapter 6. Thermodynamic Model for the Development of a Convectively Unstable Boundary Layer 128
Chapter 7. Vertical Component of Turbulence in Convective Conditions 142
Chapter 8. Surface Layer of the Atmosphere in Unstable Conditions 148
Chapter 9. Numerical Simulation of Lagrangian Turbulent Quantities in Two and Three Dimensions 158
Chapter 10. The Eulerian–Lagrangian Relationship Resulting from a Turbulence Model 182
Chapter 11. Computational Modeling of Turbulent Transport 186
Chapter 12. Modeling the Atmospheric Boundary Layer 210
Chapter 13. Instantaneous Velocity and Length Scales in a Turbulent Shear Flow 230
Chapter 14. Numerical Computation of Turbulent Shear Flows 242
Chapter 15. Energy Cascade in Large-Eddy Simulations of Turbulent Fluid Flows 254
Chapter 16. Statistical Analysis of Wall Turbulence Phenomena 266
Chapter 17. Structure of the Reynolds Stress and the Occurrence of Bursts in the Turbulent Boundary Layer 304
Chapter 18. Some Features of Turbulent Diffusion from a Continuous Source at Sea 332
Chapter 19. Diffusion of Turbidity by Shear Effect and Turbulence in the Southern Bight of the North Sea 348
Chapter 20. Investigation of Small-Scale Vertical Mixing in Relation to the Temperature Structure in Stably Stratified Waters 356
Chapter 21. Turbulent Diffusion of Heat and Momentum in the Ocean 370
Chapter 22. Turbulent Diffusion and Beach Deposition of Floating Pollutants 388
Chapter 23. Estiniation of the Diffusion Coefficient of Thermal Pollution 400
Chapter 24. Activities in, and Preliminary Results of, Air–Sea Interactions Research at I.M.S.T 408
Chapter 25. Eddy Diffusion Coefficients in the Planetary Boundary Layer 424
Chapter 26. Lagrangian–Eulerian Time-Scale Relationship Estimated from Constant Volume Balloon Flights Past a Tall Tower 436
Chapter 27. Effect of Molecular Diffusion on the Structure of a Turbulent Density Interface 450
Chapter 28. Renormalization for the Wiener–Hermite Representation of Statistical Turbulence 462
Subject Index 474