Calculation of velocity skewness in real and artificial plant canopies |
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Authors: | Roger H. Shaw Ido Seginer |
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Affiliation: | (1) Department of Land, Air and Water Resources, University of California, Davis, USA;(2) Department of Agricultural Engineering, Technion, Haifa, Israel |
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Abstract: | ![]() Wind velocities within a plant canopy are much more strongly skewed than those of the air flow above. We have examined the governing Eulerian equations for the velocity products u i, u j u k using data from a wind tunnel study with an artificial canopy consisting of an array of 5 cm lengths of monofilament fishing line, and from measurements in corn (Zea mays L).Simple parameterizations for pressure-velocity correlations, and for the quadruple velocity products allowed reasonably accurate calculations of the third moments using measured profiles of the mean velocity, variance and covariance fields. Comparisons of individual terms in the rate equations for ovu i, u ju krevealed that diffusion (from above) and mean shear were most important in creating large skewness in the canopy. A drag term also contributed but was of lesser importance. These terms were balanced by return-to-isotropy and a turbulence interaction term. A quasi-Gaussian approximation considerably underestimated the magnitude of the fourth moments within the canopy. |
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