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In summary, the viscous stress tensor is given by
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(9.46) |
Motivated by Wajsowicz (1993) and Smagorinsky (1993), define the
kinematic viscosity coefficients
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= |
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(9.47) |
| A |
= |
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(9.48) |
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= |
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(9.49) |
where
is the notation used in Wajsowicz
(1993), and
is the notation used in
Smagorinsky (1993). The stress tensor components now take the form
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(9.50) |
which exposes a total of three viscous degrees of freedom.
RC Pacanowski and SM Griffies, GFDL, Jan 2000