Kiarash Kamkar
Numerical models for convective motion in the atmosphere.
Rel. Luca Brandt. Politecnico di Torino, Corso di laurea magistrale in Ingegneria Per L'Ambiente E Il Territorio, 2026
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Abstract
Moist atmospheric convection couples turbulent transport, phase change, and buoyancy in ways that remain a leading source of uncertainty in weather and climate prediction. This thesis develops a consistent framework for shallow moist convection that bridges classical Rayleigh–Bénard convection and atmospheric dynamics with phase change. The model is built on a simplified Baer–Nunziato four-equation diffuse-interface formulation and implemented in the parallel solver FluTAS. Rather than resolving a sharp liquid–gas interface, a mixture description is adopted, in which the two phases share a single velocity, pressure, and temperature field, and the condensate is represented through a transported volume fraction, while chemical non-equilibrium is retained to capture condensation and evaporation.
Phase change is modelled as a relaxation of the vapour mass fraction towards its saturation value, closed through the Antoine equation, and buoyancy is formulated within the Boussinesq approximation to include thermal, water-vapour, and condensate-loading contributions
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