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An accurate description of the atmospheric boundary layer (ABL) is a prerequisite for computational fluid dynamics (CFD) wind studies. This includes taking into account the thermal stability of the atmosphere, which can be stable, neutral or unstable, depending on the nature of the surface fluxes of momentum and heat. The surface fluxes and vertical profiles of wind velocity and temperature are described by Monin–Obukhov similarity theory. The implementation of this thermally stratified atmosphere into CFD has been examined in this study by using Reynolds-averaged Navier–Stokes (RANS) turbulence models, and the commercial code STAR-CCM+.

REF.1. CFD investigation of the atmospheric boundary layer under different thermal stability conditions

emsig.edu.au/cfd-investigation-of-the-atmospheric-boundary-layer-unde...

Ref.2 scholar.sun.ac.za/bitstream/handle/10019.1/.../pieterse_cfd_2013.pdf?...

Tank you very much for your answer.

I found the first references. Unfortunately concerning the second references, I didn't find it.

don't have any particular publication using STAR-CCM+ for ABL, but our user guide

mentions following references for ABL:

Garratt, J.R. 1992. “The atmospheric boundary layer” Cambridge University Press, pp. 1–15.

Martinez, B. 2011. “Wind resource in complex terrain with OpenFOAM” MSc Thesis, Riso DTU, Denmark.

Richards, P. J., and Hoxey, R. P. 1993. “Appropriate boundary conditions for computational wind engineering models using the k-epsilon model” Journal of Wind Engineering and Industrial Aerodynamics, 46, pp. 145–153.

 Dear Annie

I am working with this problem, but using a 3D domain, differently from Pieterse/Harms and Alinot/Masson. Pieterse has used the STAR-CCM and Alinot Fluent. I am trying to use the same turbulence constants for k-epsilon model used by them, but I am not successful.

I am attaching the Pieterse thesis.

I'm available if you want to exchange some ideas.

Regards,

Leonardo

I have several publications of the urban boundary layer using StarCCM+... You can check it out on my profile. 

Djordje