Large-Eddy Simulation of turbulent winds during the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant accident by coupling with a meso-scale meteorological simulation model

Nakayama, Hiromasa  ; Takemi, Tetsuya*; Nagai, Haruyasu 

One of the important issues to be solved to couple LES and MM models is to impose time-dependent turbulent inflow data for LESs from the MM model outputs, because the MM models are not able to reproduce high-frequency turbulent fluctuations appropriate to drive LES models. In this study, we apply the recycling technique to couple the CFD and MM models. We conduct an LES of turbulent winds during the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant accident and report the usefulness of our approach by comparing the simulated results with the observations.