JOURNAL PAPERS

Chow, F.K. and R.L. Street. 2009. Evalution of turbulence closure models for large-eddy simulation over complex terrain: flow over Askervein Hill. Journal of Applied Meteorology and Climatology 48(5), 1050-1065. DOI: 10.1175/2008JAMC1862.1

Ludwig, F.L., Chow, F.K. and R.L. Street. 2009. Effect of subfilter-scale turbulence models and resolution on resolved velocity structure and momentum fluxes in simulations of neutral boundary layer flow. Journal of Applied Meteorology and Climatology , in press. DOI: 10.1175/2008JAMC2021.1

Schmidli, J., Poulos, G.S., Daniels, M.H. and F.K. Chow. 2009. External influences on nocturnal thermally driven flows in a deep valley. Journal of Applied Meteorology and Climatology 48(1), 3-23. [DOI: 10.1175/2008JAMC1852.1, © Copyright 2009 AMS]

Michioka, T. and F.K. Chow. 2008. High-resolution large-eddy simulations of scalar transport in atmospheric boundary layer flow over complex terrain. Journal of Applied Meteorology and Climatology 47(12), 3150-3169. [DOI: 10.1175/2008JAMC1941.1, © Copyright 2008 AMS]

Stacey, M.T., Fram, J.P., and F.K. Chow. 2008. The role of tidally-periodic density stratification in the creation of estuarine subtidal circulation. Journal of Geophysical Research - Oceans 113, C08016. doi:10.1029/2007JC004581

Grubisic, V., Doyle, J.D., Kuettner, J., Mobbs, S., Smith, R.B., Whiteman, C.D., Dirks, R., Czyzyk, S., Cohn, S.A., Vosper, S., Weissman, M., Haimov, S., De Wekker, S., Pan, L., and F.K. Chow.. 2008. The Terrain-induced Rotor Experiment: An overview of the field campaign and some highlights of special observations. Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society 89(10), 1513-1533. DOI: 10.1175/2008BAMS2487.1.

Delle Monache, L., Lundquist, J.K., Kosovic, B., Johannesson, G., Dyer, K.M., Aines, R.D., Belles, R.D., Chow, F.K., Hanley, W.G., Larsen, S.C., Loosmore, G.A., Nitao, J.J., Sugiyama, G.A., and P.J. Vogt. 2008. Bayesian inference and Markov Chain Monte Carlo sampling to reconstruct a contaminant source at continental scale. Journal of Applied Meteorology and Climatology 47, 2600-2613. DOI: 10.1175/2008JAMC1766.1

Lyon, S.W., Dominguez, F., Gochis, D.J., Brunsell, N.A., Castro, C.L., Chow, F.K., Fuka, D., Hong, Y., Kucera, P., Nesbitt, S.W., Fan, Y., Salzmann, N., Schmidli, J., Snyder, P.K., Teuling, A.J., Twine, T.E., Levis, S., Lundquist, J.D., Salvucci, G.D., Sealy, A.M., and M.T. Walter. 2008. Coupling terrestrial and atmospheric water dynamics to improve prediction in a changing environment. Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society 89(9), 1275-1279. DOI: 10.1175/2008BAMS2547.1

Chow, F.K., Kosovic, B., and S.T. Chan. 2008. Source inversion for contaminant plume dispersion in urban environments using building-resolving simulations. Journal of Applied Meteorology and Climatology 47(6), 1553-1572. [abstract, pdf article]

Maxwell, R.M., Chow, F.K., and S.J. Kollet. 2007. The groundwater-land-surface-atmosphere connection: soil moisture effects on the atmospheric boundary layer in fully-coupled simulations. Advances in Water Resources 30(12), 2447-2466. doi:10.1016/j.advwatres.2007.05.018

Weigel, A.P., Chow, F.K., and M.W. Rotach. 2007. On the nature of turbulent kinetic energy in a steep and narrow Alpine valley. Boundary-Layer Meteorology 123, 177-199. DOI10.1007/s10546-006-9142-9

Weigel, A.P., Chow, F.K., and M.W. Rotach. 2006. The effect of mountainous topography on moisture exchange between the "surface" and the free atmosphere. Boundary-Layer Meteorology (Online First) DOI10.1007/s10546-006-9120-2

Chow, F.K., Weigel, A.P., Street, R.L., Rotach, M.W., and M. Xue. 2006. High-resolution large-eddy simulations of flow in a steep Alpine valley. Part I: Methodology, verification, and sensitivity experiments. Journal of Applied Meteorology and Climatology 45(1), 63-86. [abstract, pdf article, © Copyright 2006 AMS]

Weigel, A.P., Chow, F.K., Rotach, M.W., Street, R.L., and M. Xue. 2006. High-resolution large-eddy simulations of flow in a steep Alpine valley. Part II: Flow structure and heat budgets. Journal of Applied Meteorology and Climatology 45(1), 87-107. [abstract, pdf article, © Copyright 2006 AMS]

Chow, F.K., Street, R.L., Xue, M., and J.H. Ferziger. 2005. Explicit filtering and reconstruction turbulence modeling for large-eddy simulation of neutral boundary layer flow. Journal of the Atmospheric Sciences 62(7), 2058-2077. [abstract, pdf article, © Copyright 2005 AMS]

Gullbrand, J. and F.K. Chow. 2003. The effect of numerical errors and turbulence models in large-eddy simulation of channel flow, with and without explicit filtering. Journal of Fluid Mechanics 495, 323-341. [abstract, pdf article © 2003 Cambridge University Press, reprinted with permission.]

Colette, A., Chow, F.K., and R.L. Street. 2003. A numerical study of inversion layer breakup in idealized valleys and the effects of topographic shading. Journal of Applied Meteorology 42(9), 1255-1272. [abstract, pdf article, © Copyright 2003 AMS]

Chow, F.K. and P. Moin. 2003. A further study of numerical errors in large-eddy simulation. Journal of Computational Physics 184(2), 366-380. [abstract, pdf article, doi:10.1016/S0021-9991(02)00020-7]

Katopodes, F.V., Barber, J.R., and Y. Shan. 2001. Torsional deformation of an endoscope probe. Proceedings of the Royal Society of London A, 457(2014), 2491-2506. [abstract, pdf article]

Katopodes, F.V., McKinley, G.H., and H.A. Stone. 2001. Experimental demonstration of peristaltic transport at high (dimensionless) frequencies. Appendix C of: Peristaltically driven channel flows with applications toward micromixing, by K.P. Selverov and H.A. Stone. Physics of Fluids 13(7), 1837. [abstract, pdf article, Copyright 2001 AIP]

Katopodes, F.V., Davis, A.M.J., and H.A. Stone. 2000. Piston flow in a two-dimensional channel. Physics of Fluids 12(5), 1240. [abstract, pdf article, Copyright 2000 AIP]

Invited Papers

Chow, F.K. and R.L. Street. 2005. Large-eddy simulation at scales ranging from laboratory channels to valley winds in the atmosphere: subfilter-scale model effects. Proceedings of 2005 Annual Meeting, Japan Society of Fluid Mechanics, pp. 23-28 (paper#AM05-KN-004). [pdf article]

Chow, F.K. and R.L. Street. 2004. Explicit filtering and reconstruction turbulence modeling for large-eddy simulations of field-scale flows. Proceedings of the Sixth International Conference on Hydro-Science and Engineering. [pdf article]

Contributed Papers

Lundquist, K.A., Chow, F.K., Lundquist, J.K., and J.D. Mirocha. 2008. Imposing land-surface fluxes at an immersed boundary for improved simulations of atmospheric flow over complex terrain. Paper 10A.7. 18th Symposium on Boundary Layers and Turbulence, American Meteorological Society, 15 pages. [abstract, pdf article]

Daniels, M.H., Chow, F.K., and R.M. Maxwell. 2008. Providing high-resolution surface conditions using a coupled land-surface groundwater model: effects on atmospheric boundary layer simulations over Owens Valley, CA. Paper 11A.1. 18th Symposium on Boundary Layers and Turbulence, American Meteorological Society, 9 pages. [abstract, pdf article]

Ludwig, F.L., Chow, F.K., and R.L. Street. 2008. The need for caution when interpreting velocity field structures predicted by LES. Paper 11B.3. 18th Symposium on Boundary Layers and Turbulence, American Meteorological Society, 14 pages. [abstract, pdf article]

Lundquist, J.K., Chow, F.K., Mirocha, J.D. and K.A. Lundquist. 2007. An improved WRF for urban-scale and complex-terrain applications. Paper 4.4. 7th Symposium on the Urban Environment, American Meteorological Society, 6 pages. [abstract, pdf article]

Lundquist, K.A., Chow, F.K., Lundquist, J.K., and J.D. Mirocha. 2007. Development of an immersed boundary method to resolve complex terrain in the Weather Research and Forecasting model. Paper 11.1 7th Symposium on the Urban Environment, American Meteorological Society, 10 pages. [abstract, pdf article]

Mirocha, J.D., Chow, F.K., Lundquist, J.K., and K.A. Lundquist. 2007. Improved subfilter turbulence modeling for large eddy simulation using WRF. Paper 13.1 7th Symposium on the Urban Environment, American Meteorological Society, 4 pages. [abstract, pdf article]

Daniels, M.H., Chow, F.K., and G.S. Poulos. 2006. Effects of soil moisture initialization on simulations of atmospheric boundary layer evolution in Owens Valley. Paper 7.2. 12th Conference on Mountain Meteorology, American Meteorological Society, 8 pages. [abstract, pdf article]

Ludwig, F.L., Chow, F.K., and R.L. Street. 2006. Effects of sub-filter scale turbulence models on velocity structure in simulations of neutral boundary-layer flow. Paper 4.4. 17th Symposium on Boundary Layers and Turbulence, American Meteorological Society, 12 pages. [abstract, pdf article]

Chow, F.K., Kollet, S.J., Maxwell, R.M., and Q. Duan. 2006. Effects of soil moisture heterogeneity on boundary layer flow with coupled groundwater, land-surface, and mesoscale atmospheric modeling. Paper 5.6. 17th Symposium on Boundary Layers and Turbulence, American Meteorological Society, 6 pages. [abstract, pdf article]

Chow, F.K., Kosovic, B., and S.T. Chan. 2006. Source inversion for dispersion in urban environments using building-resolving simulations and Bayesian inference with stochastic sampling. Paper J4.4. 6th Symposium on the Urban Environment, American Meteorological Society, 9 pages. [abstract, pdf article]

Wissink, A.M., Kosovic, B., Chand, K., Berger, M., Gunney, B., Kapfer, C., and F.K. Chow. 2006. Adaptive Urban Dispersion Integrated Model. Paper J4.7. 6th Symposium on the Urban Environment, American Meteorological Society, 8 pages. [abstract, pdf article]

Weigel, A.P., Chow, F.K., Rotach, M.W., and R.L. Street. 2005. The nature of turbulent kinetic energy in a deep and narrow valley under convective (?) conditions. Paper O.1.3. 27th International Conference on Alpine Meteorology (ICAM) and MAP-Meeting 2005, 4 pages. [pdf article]

Chow, F.K. and R.L. Street. 2004. Evaluation of turbulence models for large-eddy simulations of flow over Askervein Hill. Paper 7.11. 16th Symposium on Boundary Layers and Turbulence, American Meteorological Society, 8 pages. [abstract, pdf article]

Fedorovich, E., Conzemius, R., Esau, I., Chow, F.K., Lewellen, D.C., Moeng, C.-H., Pino, D., Sullivan, P.P., and J. Vila. 2004. Entrainment into sheared convective boundary layers as predicted by different large eddy simulation codes. Paper P4.7. 16th Symposium on Boundary Layers and Turbulence, American Meteorological Society, 14 pages. [abstract, pdf article]

Chow, F.K., Weigel, A.P., Street, R.L., Rotach, M.W., and M. Xue. 2004. High-resolution large-eddy simulations of the Riviera Valley: methodology and sensitivity studies. Paper 6.2. 11th Conference on Mountain Meteorology, American Meteorological Society, 8 pages. [abstract, pdf article]

Weigel, A.P., Chow, F.K., Rotach, M.W., Street, R.L., and M. Xue. 2004. High-resolution large-eddy simulations of the Riviera Valley: assessment of the flow structures and the heat and moisture budgets. Paper 6.4. 11th Conference on Mountain Meteorology, American Meteorological Society, 6 pages. [abstract, pdf article]

Gullbrand, J. and F.K. Chow. 2002. Investigation of the effects of numerical errors, subfilter-scale models, and subgrid-scale models in turbulent channel flow simulations. Proceedings of the Summer Program, Center for Turbulence Research, Stanford University and NASA Ames, 87-104. [pdf article]

Chow, F.K. and R.L. Street. 2002. Modeling unresolved motions in LES of field-scale flows. 15th Symposium on Boundary Layers and Turbulence, American Meteorological Society, pp. 432-325. [abstract, pdf article]

Katopodes, F.V., Street R.L., and J.H. Ferziger. 2000. Subfilter-scale scalar transport for large-eddy simulation. 14th Symposium on Boundary Layers and Turbulence, American Meteorological Society, pp. 472-475. [abstract, pdf article]

Selected Published Abstracts

Lundquist, J.K., Mirocha, J.D., Chow, F.K., Kosovic, B. and K.A. Lundquist. 2009. Nesting large-eddy simulations within mesoscale simulations for wind energy applications. Paper J22.4. 8th Symposium on the Urban Environment, American Meteorological Society. [abstract]

Chow, F.K., Daniels, M.H. and C.D. Whiteman. 2006. Investigation of anti-winds in Owens Valley, California through observations and high-resolution simulations. Paper 6.4. 12th Conference on Mountain Meteorology, American Meteorological Society. [abstract]

Chow, F.K., Street, R.L. and M. Xue. 2006. Simulations of the atmospheric boundary layer using subfilter-scale reconstruction and the dynamic Wong-Lilly SGS model. Paper P1.26. Doug Lilly Symposium, American Meteorological Society. [abstract]

Maxwell, R.M., Kollet, S.J., Q. Duan, and F.K. Chow. 2006. Simulating water and energy fluxes using a coupled groundwater, surface water, land surface and regional climate model. Paper JP1.32. 20th Conference on Hydrology, American Meteorological Society. [abstract]

Weigel, A.P., Rotach, M.W., Chow, F.K., and R.L. Street. 2004. High resolution large-eddy simulation of a steep Alpine valley. 4th Annual Meeting of the European Meteorological Society, EMS04-A-00494.

Weigel, A.P., Chow, F.K., Rotach, M.W., and R.L. Street. 2004. Assessment of large-eddy simulations of the atmospheric boundary layer in a steep and narrow Alpine valley. Geophysical Research Abstracts 6, EGU04-A-03496. [pdf abstract]

Chow, F.K., Street, R.L. and J.H. Ferziger. 2001. A theory for the subfilter-scale model in large-eddy simulation. Abstract AE.005 in the Bulletin of the American Physical Society, Program of the 54th Annual Meeting of the Division of Fluid Dynamics, Volume 46, No. 10, p. 20. [abstract]

REPORTS AND THESES

Chow, F.K. 2004. Subfilter-scale turbulence modeling for large-eddy simulation of the atmospheric boundary layer over complex terrain. Ph.D. Dissertation, Stanford University, Environmental Fluid Mechanics and Hydrology, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering. [gzipped postscript file (31 MB) , pdf file (19 MB)]

Katopodes, F.V., Street R.L., and J.H. Ferziger. 2000. A theory for the subfilter-scale model in large-eddy simulation, EFML Technical Report 2000-K1, Stanford University. [postscript file, pdf file]

Katopodes, F.V. 1998. Laboratory-scale modeling of a microelectromechanical mixing device. Honors Thesis, Harvard University, Division of Engineering and Applied Sciences.