Numerical study of the secondary circulation flow in a valley

Authors

  • Marcelino Ferro Departamento de Física, Centro de Ciências Naturais e Exatas - CCNE Universidade Federal de Santa Maria - UFSM, Santa Maria, RS.
  • Marcelo Moraes Centro de Pesquisas em Sensoriamento Remoto e Meteorologia, UFRGS, Porto Alegre, RS.
  • Osvaldo L. L. Moraes Departamento de Física, Centro de Ciências Naturais e Exatas - CCNE Universidade Federal de Santa Maria - UFSM, Santa Maria, RS.

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.5902/2179460X26382

Abstract

In this paper it was numerically simulated an air stream perpendicularly incident upon a valley in order to determine the influence of the Froude and the Rossby numbers in the pattern of the flow. The main of this study is to search under what range of these parameters the air stream will be channeled in the valley. Theoretical considerations shows that the channeling occur if the values of these numbers are limited in one region in the space defined by these parameters.

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Published

1994-12-12

How to Cite

Ferro, M., Moraes, M., & Moraes, O. L. L. (1994). Numerical study of the secondary circulation flow in a valley. Ciência E Natura, 16(16), 07–20. https://doi.org/10.5902/2179460X26382

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