SPECIFIC STUDIES UNDER STRATIFIED BOUNDARY  LAYER FLOW CONDITIONS:

 

          Supervised by R.N. Meroney at Colorado State University

 

STABLE BOUNDARY LAYER  FLOWS:

 

1.  Meroney, R. N. and Chaudhry,* F. H., SIMILARITY THEORY OF DIFFUSION AND THE CHANNEL SPREAD IN DIABATIC SURFACE LAYER, Journal of Boundary Layer Meteorology, Vol. 3, pp. 405_415, March 1973, CEP71_72FHC-RNM44.

 

2.  Meroney, R. N. and Chaudhry,* F. H., A LABORATORY STUDY OF DIFFUSION IN A STABLY STRATIFIED FLOW, FDDL, Colorado State University, Atmospheric Environment, Vol. 7, No. 4, pp. 443_454, 1973, CEP70_71FHC-RNM63.

 

3.  Meroney, R. N. and Chaudhry,* F. H., COMMENT ON THE DISPERSION OF MATTER IN NEUTRAL AND STABLY STRATIFIED ATMOSPHERIC SURFACE LAYERS, by K. Atesman, Int. Journal of Heat and Mass Transfer, Vol. 17, No. 2, pp. 387_388, 1974, CEP72_73FHC-RNM77.

 

4.  Meroney, R. N., BUOYANCY EFFECTS ON TURBULENT SHEAR FLOWS, AMS/WMO Symposium on Atmospheric Diffusion and Air Pollution, Proceedings, Santa Barbara, September 9_13, 1974, CEP73_74RNM52, (Abstract reviewed only).

 

5.  Meroney, R. N., AN ALGEBRAIC STRESS MODEL FOR STRATIFIED TURBULENT SHEAR FLOWS, Computer and Fluids, Vol. 4, pp. 93_107, 1976, CEP73_74RNM53.

 

6.  Meroney, R. N., Petersen,* R. L., Cermak, J. E., and Hovind, E. L., A WIND-TUNNEL STUDY OF PLUME RISE AND DISPERSION UNDER STABLE STRATIFICATION, Proceedings of Joint Conference on Applications on Air Pollution Meteorology, AMS-APCA, Salt Lake City, November 1977, pp. 347_352, CEP77_78RLP-JEC-RNM3.

 

7.  Meroney, R.N., Ohya, R.*, and Neff, D.E. TURBULENCE STRUCTURE IN A STRATIFIED BOUNDARY LAYER UNDER STABLE CONDITIONS,  Boundary Layer Meteorology, Vol. 83, pp. 139-161, 1997. CEP95-96-DEN-RNM-YO-6.

 

 

DISPERSION IN STABLE BOUNDARY LAYER STRATIFICATION:

 

8.  Meroney, R. N. and Li,* W. W., RE-EXAMINATION OF EULERIAN-LAGRANGIAN TURBULENCE RELATIONSHIPS, Atmospheric Environment, Vol. 19, No. 6, 1985, pp. 853_855, CEP83_84WWL-RNM_19.

 

9.  Meroney, R.N., A TIME DEPENDENT, QUASI-THREE DIMENSIONAL DEPTH-INTEGRATED NUMERICAL MODEL TO CALCULATE SURFACE HEAT TRANSFER AND ENTRAINMENT TO COLD FLUID INTRUSIONS, Proceedings of Int. Symposium on Refined Flow Modeling and Turbulence Measurements, Iowa City, Iowa, 16_18 September 1985, 10 pp. CEP84_85RNM_12.  also Turbulence Measurements and Flow Modeling, ed. Chen, Chen and Holly, Hemisphere Publishing Corporation, 1987.  (Abstract reviewed).

 

10.  Meroney, R.N., Baldwin*, L.V., Johnsen, G.R. and Li, W.W., THE ESTIMATION OF TURBULENT DISPERSION FROM VELOCITY STATISTICS, PART I:  THE LAGRANGIAN AUTOCORRELATION FUNCTION, February 1985, 45 pp. CEP84_85LVB-GRJ-WWL-RNM13.

 

11.  Meroney, R.N. and Li, W.W.*, MEASUREMENTS OF TWO-POINT EULERIAN VELOCITY STATISTICS IN A TURBULENT BOUNDARY LAYER, Proceedings 7th Symposium on Turbulence and Diffusion, 12_15 November 1985, Boulder, Colorado, pp. E14_1 to E14_10, CEP85_86WWL-RNM2.  (Abstract reviewed).

 

12.  Meroney, R.N., Grainger, Clyde,* DISPERSION IN AN OPEN-CUT COAL MINE IN STABLY STRATIFIED FLOW., Jrnl. of Boundary Layer Meteorology, Vol. 63, 1993, pp. 117-140.  CEP91-92CG-RNM-5.

 

13.  Meroney, R.N., Grainger, Clyde, NIGHTTIME FLOW AND DISPERSION OVER LARGE BASINS OR MINING PITS.  Symposium on Measurement and Modeling of Environmental Flows.  1992 ASME Winter Annual Meeting, Anaheim, CA, November 8-13, 1992.  FED-Vol. 143/HTD-Vol. 232, pp. 209-215, CEP92-93-RNM-CG-1.  (Fully reviewed).

 

14.  Meroney, R.N., and Wu, George*, IMPACT OF CHANGES OF SURFACE ROUGHNESS ON SURFACE LAYER WINDS, TURBULENCE AND PLUME DISPERSION, Proceedings of 9th Int. Conf. on Wind Engineering, New Delhi, India, January 1995, 12 pp. (Reviewed conference). CEP94-95-GW-RNM-14.

 

URBAN AREA SIMULATIONS:

 

15.  Meroney, R. N., Cermak, J. E., and Kawatani,* T., CHARACTERISTICS OF THE MEAN FLOW OVER A SIMULATED URBAN AREA, Proceedings of Third International Conference on Wind Effects on Buildings and Structures in Tokyo, Japan, September 6_11, 1971, CEP70_71TK-JECRNM89, (Paper fully reviewed).

 

16.  Meroney, R. N. and Yamada, T., WIND TUNNEL AND NUMERICAL EXPERIMENTS OF TWO-DIMENSIONAL STRATIFIED AIRFLOW OVER A HEATED ISLAND, Proceedings of Symposium on Environmental and Geophysical Heat Transfer during the 1971 Winter Annual Meeting of the ASME, November 28-December 2, 1971, Washington, D.C., CEP70_71RNM-TY93, (Paper fully reviewed).

 

 

17.  Meroney, R. N. and Yamada,* T., NUMERICAL AND PHYSICAL SIMULATION OF A STRATIFIED AIRFLOW OVER A SERIES OF HEATED ISLANDS, Proceedings of Summer Simulation Conference, June 13_16, 1972, San Diego, California, CEP71_72RNM-TY64

 


18.  Meroney, R.N., Rafailidis, S. And Pavageau, M., DISPERSION IN IDEALIZED URBAN STREET CANYONS, Proceedings of the 21st International Technical meeting on Air Pollution Modelling and Its Application, Baltimore, Md., November 6-10, 1995, 8pp. (Reviewed Conference).  Also published as reviewed paper in Air Pollution Modeling and Its Application XI, (ed. S.E. Gryning & F.A. Schiermeier), NATO Challenges of Modern Society, Plenum Press, New York, Vol. 21, pp. 451-458. CEP95-96-RNM-SR-MP-4.

 

19.  Meroney, R.N., and Chang, C.H.*, NUMERICAL AND PHYSICAL MODELLING OF URBAN STREET CANYON DISPERSION, Millennium NATO/CCMS International Technical Meeting on Air Pollution Modelling and its Application, Boulder, CO, 15-19 May 2000, 2 pages plus poster.  CEP99-20-CHC-RNM-1.

 

20.  Meroney, R.N., and Chang, C.H.*, NUMERICAL AND PHYSICAL MODELING OF BLUFF BODY FLOW AND DISPERSION IN URBAN STREET CANYONS,  4th Int. Colloquium on Bluff Body Aerodynamics and Applications, Ruhr-University, Bochum, Germany, 11-14 September 2000, 4 pp.  CEP99-20-CHC-RNM-3.

 

LAKE AND SEASHORE SIMULATIONS:

 

21.  Meroney, R. N., Cermak, J. E., and Yang, B. T., MODELING OF ATMOSPHERIC TRANSPORT AND FUMIGATION AT SHORELINES, Boundary Layer Meteorology, Vol. 9, No.    1, pp.   69_90, 1975, CEP74_75RNM-JEC2.

 

22.  Meroney, R. N., MODELING OF ATMOSPHERIC TRANSPORT AND FUMIGATION AT SHORELINE POWER PLANT SITES, Proceedings of Second U.S. National Conference on Wind Engineering, Fort Collins, Colorado, June 22_25, 1975, (Abstract reviewed only), pp. I_24_1 to I_24_3, CEP74_75-JEC93f.

 

 

STABLE STRATIFICATION AND BUILDING AERODYNAMICS:


 

23.  Meroney, R. N. and Yang, B. T., GASEOUS PLUME DIFFUSION ABOUT ISOLATED STRUCTURES OF SIMPLE GEOMETRY, Proceedings of 2nd International Air Pollution Conference of the International Union of Air pollution Prevention Associations, December 6_11, 1970, Washington, D.C., CEP70_71RNM-BTY3, (Paper fully reviewed).

 

24.  Meroney, R. N., Peterka, J. A., Hatcher, R. V., and Kothari, K., GASEOUS DISPERSION AND TURBULENCE IN THE WAKE OF NUCLEAR REACTOR PLANTS, Proceedings of 4th International Clean Air Congress, May 16_20, 1977, Tokyo, Japan, pp. 167_170, CEP76_77RNM-JAP-RVH-KK14.

 

25.  Meroney, R. N. and Hatcher,* R. V., DISPERSION IN THE WAKE OF A MODEL INDUSTRIAL COMPLEX, Proceedings of Joint Conference on Applications on Air Pollution Meteorology, AMS-APCA, Salt Lake City, November 1977, pp. 348_346, CEP77_78RVH-RNM2.

 

26.  Meroney, R. N., STUDYING THE CONVECTIVE HEAT TRANSFER FROM A BUILDING MODEL WITH INFRARED CAMERA TECHNIQUES, 1978 ASME Winter Annual Meeting, December 10_15, 1978, San Francisco, California, May 1978, 28 p., ASME Paper 78-WA/HT_58, CEP77_78RNM61, (Reviewed).

 

27.  Meroney, R. N., Kothari, K. M., and Bouwmeester,* R. J. B., AN ALGORITHM TO ESTIMATE FIELD CONCENTRATIONS IN THE WAKE OF A POWER PLANT COMPLEX UNDER NONSTEADY METEOROLOGICAL CONDITIONS FROM WIND-TUNNEL EXPERIMENTS, Journal of Applied Meteorology, Vol. 30, August 1981, pp. 92_101, CEP79_80KMK-RNM-RJBB17.

 

28.  Meroney, R. N., Kothari,* K. M., and Peterka, J. A., PERTURBATION ANALYSIS AND MEASUREMENTS OF BUILDING WAKES IN A STABLY STRATIFIED TURBULENT BOUNDARY LAYER, originally submitted J. Fluid Mechanics, 1980, withdrawn 1984, accepted J. of Industrial Aerodynamics and Wind Engineering, Vol. 25 (1986), pp. 49_74.  Before CEP79_80-KMK-JAP-RNM_34 now CEP84_85-KMK-JAP-RNM _34.

 

29.  Meroney, R.N., Rafailidis, S. And Pavageau, M., DISPERSION IN IDEALIZED URBAN STREET CANYONS, Proceedings of the 21st International Technical meeting on Air Pollution Modelling and Its Application, Baltimore, Md., November 6-10, 1995, 8pp. (Reviewed Conference).  Also published as reviewed paper in Air Pollution Modeling and Its Application XI, (ed. S.E. Gryning & F.A. Schiermeier), NATO Challenges of Modern Society, Plenum Press, New York, Vol. 21, pp. 451-458. CEP95-96-RNM-SR-MP-4.

 

30.  Meroney, R.N., Pavageau, M., Rafailidis, S., and Schatzmann, M., STUDY OF LINE SOURCE CHARACTERISTICS FOR 2-D PHYSICAL MODELLING OF POLLUTANT DISPERSION IN STREET CANYONS,  J. Wind Engineering & Industrial Aerodynamics, Vol. 62, pp. 37-56, 1996. CEP95-96-RNM-MP-SR-MS-2.

 

 

31.  Meroney, R.N. and Leitl, B.*, CAR EXHAUST DISPERSION IN A STREET CANYON - NUMERICAL CRITIQUE OF A WIND TUNNEL EXPERIMENT, Int. Symposium on Computational Wind Engineering (CWE96), Colorado State University, Fort Collins, August 4-8, 1996, 19 pp

 

 

            Also published as reviewed paper in J. Wind Engineering & Industrial Aerodynamics, Vol. 67-78, pp. 293-304, April-June 1997 (Actually distributed February 1998).     CEP96-97-BL-RNM-3.

 

Also in Computational Wind Engineering 2 (Editors R.N. Meroney and B. Bienkiewicz), pp. 293k-304, Elsevier, Amsterdam, 1997 (Actually distributed February 1998).

 

32.     Meroney, R.N., Leitl, B.*, Klein, P., and Rau, M., CONCENTRATION AND FLOW DISTRIBUTIONS IN THE VICINITY OF U-SHAPED BUILDING: WIND-TUNNEL AND COMPUTATIONAL DATA, Int. Symposium on Computational Wind Engineering (CWE96), Colorado State University, Fort Collins, August 4-8, 1996, 20 pp.

 

Also published as reviewed paper in  J. Wind Engineering & Industrial Aerodynamics, Vol. 67-68, pp. 745-756, April-June 1997. CEP96-97-BL-PK-MR-RNM-2.

 

Also in Computational Wind Engineering 2 (Editors R.N. Meroney and B. Bienkiewicz), pp. 745-756, Elsevier, Amsterdam, 1997 (Actually distributed February 1998)

 

33.     Meroney, R.N. VALIDATION OF CFD PREDICTION OF COOLING TOWER DRIFT, 10th American Conference on Wind Engineering, Clemson, NC, 2 pp. CEP03-04-RNM-6.

 

34.     Meroney, R.N., CFD PREDICTION OF COOLING TOWER DRIFT, Submitted to Journal of Wind Engineering and Industrial Aerodynamics, October 2004, 36 pp.  Accepted January 2006.  CEP04-05-RNM-1.

 

35.     Meroney, R.N., WIND TUNNEL AND NUMERICAL SIMULATION OF POLLUTION DISPERSION: A Hybrid Approach, Proceedings of Croucher Advanced Study Institute, Hong University of Science and Technology, 6-10 December 2004, 7-8 December 2005, 66 pp.  CEP04-05-RNM-2.

 

36.     Meroney, R.N. COOLING TOWER DRIFT, Fluent News: Applied Computational Fluid Dynamics, Vol. XIV, Issue 3, Fall 2005, pp. 8-9.  CEP05-06-RNM-1

 

CURVED BOUNDARY ANALOG STUDIES TO STABLE STRATIFICATION FLOWS:

 

37.  Meroney, R. N. and Kahawita,* R. A., VORTEX MODE OF INSTABILITY IN NATURAL CONVECTION FLOW ALONG INCLINED PLATES, IJHMT, Vol. 17, No. 5, pp. 541_548, 1974, CEP73_74RAK-RNM66.

 

38.  Meroney, R. N. and Kahawita, R. A., LONGITUDINAL VORTEX INSTABILITIES IN LAMINAR BOUNDARY LAYERS OF CURVED HEATED SURFACES, The Physics of Fluids, Vol. 17, No. 9, pp. 1661_1666, September 1974, CEP73_74RAK-RNM73.

 

39.  Meroney, R. N. and Kahawita,* R. A., THE INFLUENCE OF HEATING ON THE STABILITY OF LAMINAR BOUNDARY LAYERS ALONG CONCAVE HEATED WALLS, Journal of Applied Mechanics, TRANS ASME, Vol. 44, Series E, No. 1, pp. 11_17, March 1977, CEP72_73RK-RNM79.

 

40.  Meroney, R. N., TURBULENT BOUNDARY LAYER GROWTH OVER A LONGITUDINALLY CURVED SURFACE, AIAA Journal, Vol. 13, No. 11, pp. 1448_1454, November 1975, CEP73_74RNM61.

 

 

STRATIFIED FLOW SIMULATION CRITERIA:

 

41.  Meroney, R. N. and Yamada,* T., A WIND TUNNEL FACILITY FOR SIMULATING MOUNTAIN AND HEAT ISLAND GRAVITY WAVES, Journal of Boundary Layer Meteorology, Vol. 1, pp. 55_70, 1974, CEP71_72TY-RNM45.

 

42.  Meroney, R. N., Lindley, D., and Bowen, A. J., PHYSICAL MODELING OF FLOW OVER COMPLEX TERRAIN, Proceedings of Fifth International Conference on Wind Engineering, Colorado State University, Fort Collins, Colorado, July 8_14, 1979, pp. 975_985, CEP78_79RNM-AJB-DL24, (Reviewed paper).

 

43.  Meroney, R.  N., PHYSICAL SIMULATION OF DISPERSION IN COMPLEX TERRAIN AND VALLEY DRAINAGE FLOW SITUATIONS, 11th Int. Tech. Meeting on Air Pollution Modeling and Its Application, Amsterdam, Netherlands, 24_27 November 1980, CEP80_81RNM_34, 21 p., Air Pollution Modelling and Its Application, C. De Wispelaere, ed., Plenum, 1981. (Reviewed).

 

44.  Meroney, R.N., Avissar, R.*, Moran, M.D., Wu, G. and Pielke, R.A., OPERATING RANGE OF NUMERICAL AND PHYSICAL MODELS FOR THE SIMULATION OF COASTAL MARINE FLOWS, Boundary Layer Meteorology, Vol. 50, pp. 227-275, 1990.  CEP88_89RA-RAP-GW-RNM-10.

 

45.  Meroney, R.N. and Melbourne, W.H. OPERATING RANGES OF METEOROLOGICAL WIND TUNNELS FOR THE SIMULATION OF CONVECTIVE BOUNDARY LAYER PHENOMENA, Journal of Boundary-Layer Meteorology, Vol. 61, pp. 145-174, 1992. CEP90-91_RNM-WHM11.

 

46.  Meroney, R.N.  DISPERSION IN NON-FLAT OBSTRUCTED TERRAIN AND ADVANCED MODELING TECHNIQUES:  Workshop Summary from Workshop on Modeling and Mitigating the Consequences of Accidental Releases of Hazardous Materials, New Orleans, LA, 20 May 1991.  AICHE Plant Operations Progress, Vol 11, No 1, January, 1992, pp. 6-11.  CEP91-92-RNM-1.

 

47.  Meroney, R.N., Grainger, Clyde, INVERTED FLOOR WIND-TUNNEL SIMULATION OF STABLY STRATIFIED FLOW, Atmospheric Environment, Vol. 28, No. 11, 1994,  pp. 1887-1893.   CEP91-92CG-RNM-6.

 

48.  Meroney, R.N., WIND TUNNEL SIMULATION OF CONVECTIVE BOUNDARY LAYER PHENOMENA: Simulation Criteria and Operating Ranges of Laboratory Facilities, (NATO Advanced Study Institute on Buoyant Convection in Geophysical Flows, 17-27 March 1997, Pforzheim, Germany.)   Buoyant Convection in Geophysical Flows, (E.J. Plate, E.E. Fedorovich, D.X. Viegas, and J.C. Wyngaard, Eds.), Kluwer Press, 313-326. CEP96-97-RNM-7.