Random Force Perturbations: A New Extension of the Cell Perturbation Method for Turbulence Generation in Multiscale Atmospheric Boundary Layer Simulations

Mazzaro, L. J.; Koo, E.; Muñoz‐Esparza, D.; Lundquist, J. K.; Linn, R. R.

doi:10.1029/2019MS001608

Title: Random Force Perturbations: A New Extension of the Cell Perturbation Method for Turbulence Generation in Multiscale Atmospheric Boundary Layer Simulations

Journal Article · Thu Jun 06 00:00:00 EDT 2019 · Journal of Advances in Modeling Earth Systems

DOI:https://doi.org/10.1029/2019MS001608· OSTI ID:1558077

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Univ. of Colorado, Boulder, CO (United States); Los Alamos National Lab. (LANL), Los Alamos, NM (United States)
Los Alamos National Lab. (LANL), Los Alamos, NM (United States)
National Center for Atmospheric Research, Boulder, CO (United States)
Univ. of Colorado, Boulder, CO (United States)

Coupling between mesoscale and large eddy simulation (LES) is critically important for many atmospheric model applications, from predictions of wind energy to fire propagation. The grid-nesting technique enables bridging between vastly different scales without incurring prohibitive computational costs. Yet, the transition from coarser to finer resolutions often requires a large number of grid points from inflow boundaries for the development of fine-scale turbulence features in the LES domain. Recently, the cell perturbation method (CPM) was developed to reduce the turbulence development region with high computational efficiency. Herein, we explore a new method based on the CPM that uses force perturbations in both the horizontal and vertical directions (Force Cell Perturbation Method) instead of the potential temperature perturbations in the original CPM, as an attempt to further explore the performance of the random perturbation techniques. This method is tested for a neutral and a convective atmospheric boundary layer under idealized conditions. Overall, similar performance is found between the optimal configurations of the CPM and the Force Cell Perturbation Method pointing to the robustness of this family of perturbation methods in accelerating turbulence generation in nested domains. Vertical force perturbations performed better than horizontal force perturbations for both atmospheric stability conditions. The CPM performed best under convective stability conditions. The combination of the force and potential temperature perturbations is found to provide no additional performance improvement over the stand-alone application of the individual methods.

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Research Organization:: Los Alamos National Lab. (LANL), Los Alamos, NM (United States)

Sponsoring Organization:: USDOE Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy (EERE), Renewable Power Office. Wind Energy Technologies Office; National Science Foundation (NSF)

Grant/Contract Number:: 89233218CNA000001; AGS‐1565498

OSTI ID:: 1558077

Report Number(s):: LA-UR-19-27259

Journal Information:: Journal of Advances in Modeling Earth Systems, Vol. 11, Issue 7; ISSN 1942-2466

Publisher:: American Geophysical Union (AGU)Copyright Statement

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