The Effect of Mesh Resolution on Convective Boundary Layer Statistics and Structures Generated by Large-Eddy Simulation

By P. Sullivan, E. Patton. 2011

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Subfields: Atmospheric Science, Computational Mechanics, Environmental Engineering

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Influence of grid aspect ratio on planetary boundary layer turbulence in large-eddy simulations (2015, background): “Sullivan and Patton (2011) tried to explain the dependency of the skewness on the horizontal resolution by the SGS moment, but they showed that its effect is quantitatively not sufficient to explain the difference.”
Large-Eddy Simulation of the Atmospheric Boundary Layer (2020, methodology): “Sullivan and Patton (2011) revisited the question of the extent to which grid resolution affects CBL statistics in LES, performing simulations of the shear-free CBL at resolutions ranging from 323 to 10243.”
On the Nature of the Transition Between Roll and Cellular Organization in the Convective Boundary Layer (2017, methodology): “…nearly grid-independent for the 2563 grid, or a characteristic filter width ofΔ f = 25.8m. Note that we find convergence at a larger value of Δ f than Sullivan and Patton (2011) (they found thatmostmean profileswerewell converged for their 2563 case on a 5120×5120×2048 m domain, or Δ f = 19.3 m).”
MicroHH 1.0: a computational fluid dynamics code for direct numerical simulation and large-eddy simulation of atmospheric boundary layer flows (2017, methodology): “As a first test case of MicroHH in LES mode, we present that of Sullivan and Patton (2011) (cases/sullivan2011).”
Overview of the PALM model system 6.0 (2019, background): “…m (Deardorff, 1970, 1973), today’s supercomputers allow for large domain runs at fine grid spacings of 1–10 m (e.g., Kanda et al., 2004; Raasch and Franke, 2011; Sullivan and Patton, 2011, among many others) or even less (Sullivan et al., 2016; Maronga and Reuder, 2017; Maronga and Bosveld, 2017).”
Convectively Induced Secondary Circulations in Fine-Grid Mesoscale Numerical Weather Prediction Models (2014, background): “Very fine-resolutionO(10)m grid systems (Sullivan and Patton 2011) on domains of several tens or even a few hundreds of kilometers across would be needed to characterize the interactions involved in CISCs in order to develop such a parameterization.”
Review of wave‐turbulence interactions in the stable atmospheric boundary layer (2015, neutral): “…et al., 1984; Grisogono, 1994b; Strang and Fernando, 2001; Andreas, 2002; Zilitinkevich and Baklanov, 2002; Fernando, 2003; Troy and Koseff , 2005; Achatz, 2007; Galperin et al., 2007; Mauritsen and Svensson, 2007; Zilitinkevich and Esau, 2007; Sun, 2011; Sun et al., 2012; Grachev et al., 2013].”
The Parallelized Large-Eddy Simulation Model (PALM) version 4.0 for atmospheric and oceanic flows: model formulation, recent developments, and future perspectives (2015, methodology): “…transposition is done using the MPI routine MPI_ALLTOALL and requires an additional re-sorting of the data in the local memory of the PEs before and after MPI_ALLTOALL is called. similar method with MPI_ALLTOALL , replaced by MPI_SENDRECV , has been recently presented by Sullivan and Patton (2011).”