Does anyone understand how turbulence is modelled? I've had the following experience: I've been soaring using the ASK-13 in a test of the new convective cloud life cycle implementation (nothing is as frustrating as a nice Cumulus dissolving just as you are about to reach it...), and by a bug which I haven't quite understood yet, the effect volume of the thermal was terminated incorrectly. I had all relevant property browser windows open (it was a test after all), so by chance I have a quite good idea what was happening.
Since thermals are surrounded by a zone of turbulence, I left the thermal with turbulence 3 Hz magnitude 0.6 or so, with all thermal lift off (I can confirm that also ridge lift was off). The ride was quite bumpy, but to my surprise I was able to climb on turbulence alone about 300 m. Since the ASK-13 would sink with a rate of 0.5 - 1 m/s in unmoving air, this means that somehow turbulence must on average generate have a lot more airflow from below than from above. Can anyone else reproduce that? If yes, is this how it is supposed to be or is that a bug? * Thorsten ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Lotusphere 2011 Register now for Lotusphere 2011 and learn how to connect the dots, take your collaborative environment to the next level, and enter the era of Social Business. http://p.sf.net/sfu/lotusphere-d2d _______________________________________________ Flightgear-devel mailing list Flightgear-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/flightgear-devel
