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Turbulent flows interacting with varying density canopies

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  05 August 2009

Laurence Pietri
Affiliation:
Institut de Recherches sur les Phénomènes Hors Equilibre (IRPHE), Aix-Marseille Université, C.N.R.S., Technopôle de Château-Gombert, 49 rue F. Joliot-Curie, B.P. 146, 13384 Marseille Cedex 13, France
Alexandre Petroff
Affiliation:
Air Quality Research Division, Environment Canada,4905 Dufferin St. Toronto, M3H 5T4, Canada
Muriel Amielh
Affiliation:
Institut de Recherches sur les Phénomènes Hors Equilibre (IRPHE), Aix-Marseille Université, C.N.R.S., Technopôle de Château-Gombert, 49 rue F. Joliot-Curie, B.P. 146, 13384 Marseille Cedex 13, France
Fabien Anselmet
Affiliation:
Institut de Recherches sur les Phénomènes Hors Equilibre (IRPHE), Aix-Marseille Université, C.N.R.S., Technopôle de Château-Gombert, 49 rue F. Joliot-Curie, B.P. 146, 13384 Marseille Cedex 13, France École Centrale Marseille, Technopôle de Château-Gombert, 38 rue F. Joliot-Curie, 13451 Marseille Cedex 20, France
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Abstract

In the case of dense and homogeneous canopies, it is well-known that canopy flows are similar to mixing layer flows (so-called mixing layer analogy). When the canopy becomes sparser, a transition between the mixing layer and the boundary layer perturbed by interactions between element wakes occurs. This transition has still to be fully understood and characterized. An experimental work has been developed in order to study this transition for various density canopies.

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© AFM, EDP Sciences, 2009

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