The volume would be an opportunity to pull together a broader overview of the efforts, the progress and of new results of laboratory experiments as well as of numerical simulations that were both performed recently to better understand atmospheric and oceanic fluid motion. The book would not only shine a light on new research topics of experiments on laboratory scale but would also highlight recent developments of corresponding numerical approaches in this context. As sufficient computer resources and suitable numerical codes exist today, the interplay of numerical simulations and experimental research is of great interest in the scientific community nowadays. The comparison of both, results of laboratory experiments and of adequate numerical modeling, would be an outstanding feature of this volume with a particular focus on how to accurately simulate laboratory flows using numerical models.

As sufficient computer resources and numerical codes become available, the interplay of numerical simulations and experimental research is gaining increasing interest in the scientific community. The main focus of the book in fluid flow modeling is the comparison of both, results of laboratory experiments and of adequate numerical simulations with the particular aim to accurately simulate laboratory flows using numerical models. With the focus on combined laboratory and numerical investigations of a system, authors address on the experimental side new designs of experiments on a laboratory scale, developments in instrumentation and data acquisition techniques, and the computer-based analysis of experimental results. On the numerical side, authors address developments in simulation techniques from model formulation to assimilation techniques of experimental data into the model configuration, initialization or forcing. The presentation of results from corresponding experiments and models will bring the two sides together with a discussion of methodologies of reliable lab-model comparisons.