A local meshless method for approximating 3D wind fields
Document Type
Article
Publication Date
1-1-2016
Publication Title
Journal of Applied Meteorology and Climatology
Volume
55
Issue
1
First page number:
163
Last page number:
172
Abstract
An efficient, mesh-free numerical method has been developed for creating 3D wind fields using data from meteorological towers. Node points are placed within a region of interest, generally based upon topological features. Since meshless methods do not require connective mesh generation, storage is greatly reduced, permitting implementation of the code using MATLAB on a personal computer. Utilizing locally collocated nodes and radial basis functions, a 3D wind can be quickly created that satisfies mass consistency. The meshless method yields close approximations to results obtained with mesh-dependent finite-difference, finite-volume, and finite-element techniques. © 2016 American Meteorological Society.
Keywords
Emergency response; Inverse methods; Model comparison; Numerical analysis/modeling; Numerical analysis/modeling; Wind effects
Language
English
Repository Citation
Pepper, D.,
Waters, J.
(2016).
A local meshless method for approximating 3D wind fields.
Journal of Applied Meteorology and Climatology, 55(1),
163-172.
http://dx.doi.org/10.1175/JAMC-D-15-0246.1
