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Two-fluid formulation of the cloud-top mixing layer for direct numerical simulation

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Mellado,  JP.
The Atmosphere in the Earth System, MPI for Meteorology, Max Planck Society;
Max Planck Research Group Turbulent Mixing Processes in the Earth System, The Atmosphere in the Earth System, MPI for Meteorology, Max Planck Society;

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Stevens,  B.       
The Atmosphere in the Earth System, MPI for Meteorology, Max Planck Society;

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Mellado, J., Stevens, B., Schmidt, H., & Peters, N. (2010). Two-fluid formulation of the cloud-top mixing layer for direct numerical simulation. Theoretical and Computational Fluid Dynamics, 24, 511-536. doi:10.1007/s00162-010-0182-x.


Cite as: https://hdl.handle.net/11858/00-001M-0000-0011-F59D-F
Abstract
A mixture fraction formulation to perform direct numerical simulations of a disperse and dilute two-phase system consisting of water liquid and vapor in air in local thermodynamic equilibrium using a two-fluid model is derived and discussed. The goal is to understand the assumptions intrinsic to this simplified but commonly employed approach for the study of two-layer buoyancy reversing systems like the cloud-top mixing layer. Emphasis is placed on molecular transport phenomena. In particular, a formulation is proposed that recovers the actual nondiffusive liquid-phase continuum as a limiting case of differential diffusion. High-order numerical schemes suitable for direct numerical simulations in the compressible and Boussinesq limits are described, and simulations are presented to validate the incompressible approach. As expected, the Boussinesq approximation provides an accurate and efficient description of the flow on the scales (of the order of meters) that are considered.