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Fernando Porté-Agel
McKnight Land-Grant Professor
Contact Information:
- Office: CivE 149 SAFL 384
- Phone: (612)625-8055
- Fax: (612)626-7750
- E-mail: fporte@umn.edu
Research Interests:
My research interests are in land-atmosphere exchange processes, turbulence and computational fluid dynamics. The main goal is to better understand the physics underlying transport of momentum, heat, water vapor and pollutants at different scales in the atmospheric boundary layer. Improved descriptions of those transport processes are developed and used in engineering and environmental applications (e.g., hydrologic, climate and pollution models). Most research projects involve a combination of experimental work (field measurements and wind tunnel experiments), modeling (large-eddy simulations) and theoretical development. Other areas of interest include hydrology and water resources engineering.
For more information, visit my Environmental Fluid Dynamics Group page.
Selected Publications:
Stoll, R. and F. Porté-Agel. 2006. Dynamic subgrid models for momentum and scalar fluxes in large-eddy simulations of atmospheric boundary layers over heterogeneous terrain . Water Resources Research, 42, W01409, doi:10.1029/2005WR003989.
Basu, S. and F. Porté-Agel. 2006. Large-eddy simulation of stably stratified atmospheric boundary layer turbulence: a scale-dependent dynamic modeling approach . Journal of the Atmospheric Sciences, in press.
Vinuesa, J.-F. and F. Porté-Agel. 2005. A dynamic similarity subgrid model for chemical transformations in LES of the convective atmospheric boundary layer . Geophysical Research Letters, 32, L03814 .
Basu, S., F. Porté-Agel, E. Foufoula-Georgiou, J.-F. Vinuesa, and M. Pahlow. 2005. Revisiting the local scaling hypothesis in stably stratified atmospheric boundary layer turbulence: an integration of field and laboratory measurements with large-eddy simulations . Boundary-Layer Meteorology, in press.
Carper, M. and F. Porté-Agel. 2004. Coherent structures and subfilter-scale dissipation rates of turbulence measured in the atmospheric surface layer. Journal of Turbulence, 5: Art. No. 40.
Porté-Agel, F., 2004. A scale-dependent dynamic model for scalar transport in large-eddy simulations of the atmospheric boundary layer. Boundary-Layer Meteorology, 112(1): 81-105.
Venugopal, V., F. Porté-Agel, E. Foufoula-Georgiou, and M. Carper. 2003. Multiscale interactions between surface shear stress and velocity in turbulent boundary layers.Journal of Geophysical Research, 108(D19): 10.1029/2002JD003025.
Voller, V.R. and F. Porté-Agel. 2002. Moore’s law and numerical modeling. Journal of Computational Physics, 179(2): 698-703.
Marusic, I., G. J. Kunkel and F. Porté-Agel. 2001. Experimental study of wall boundary conditions for Large Eddy Simulation. Journal of Fluid Mechanics, 446: 309-320.
Porté-Agel, F. , C. Meneveau and M. B. Parlange. 2000. A scale-dependent dynamic model for large-eddy simulation: an application to the atmospheric boundary layer. Journal of Fluid Mechanics, 415: 261-284.
Education:
- Ph.D., 1999, Johns Hopkins University, Environmental Engineering
- M.Sc., 1995, International Institute for Hydraulic and Environmental Engineering (Delft, The Netherlands)
- B.S., 1992, Universidad Politécnica de Cataluña (Spain)
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