5 | | An LES has been performed of an neutrally stratified, pressure driven turbulent flow above and within a 15 m high idealized vegetation canopy. The influence of the vegetation elements was described in PALM by the embedded vegetation model after Watanabe (2004).\\ |
6 | | Mean profiles and turbulence statistics were compared with results from other LES and experimental data. The vegetation model could be validated. Coherent turbulent structures developing according to the mixing-layer analogy (Raupach et al., 1996) were analyzed by calculating turbulence length scales from mean vertical velocity gradients and two-point correlations at the canopy top.\\ |
| 5 | Large-Eddy Simulation of a neutrally stratified, pressure-driven turbulent flow above and within a 15 m high idealized vegetation canopy. The influence of the vegetation elements was described in PALM by the embedded vegetation model after Watanabe (2004).\\ |
| 6 | Mean profiles and turbulence statistics were validated against results from other LES studies and experimental data. Coherent turbulent structures developing according to the mixing-layer analogy (Raupach et al., 1996) were analyzed by calculating turbulence length scales from mean vertical velocity gradients and two-point correlations at the canopy top.\\ |