The effects of higher Eulerian velocity moments on the mean concentration distribution

Boundary-Layer Meteorology

Volumn 82, Issue 2, 1997, Pages 317-341

  Du, Shuming ^a  

^a University of California Riverside   (United States)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

BOUNDARY LAYER; DISPERSION; EULERIAN VELOCITY; KURTOSIS; PROBABILITY DENSITY FUNCTION; SKEWNESS;

EID: 0008972019     PISSN: 00068314     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/a:1000285315013     Document Type: Article

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