Scale effects in wind tunnel modelling

Journal of Wind Engineering and Industrial Aerodynamics

Volumn 61, Issue 2-3, 1996, Pages 113-130

  Wang, Zhao Yin ^a   Plate, Erich J ^b   Rau, Matthias ^b   Keiser, Rolf ^b  

^a Intl Res Train Ctr Erosion S   (China)

^b UNIVERSITY OF KARLSRUHE   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AERODYNAMICS; BOUNDARY LAYERS; DIFFUSION; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; PRESSURE EFFECTS; SURFACE ROUGHNESS; THICKNESS MEASUREMENT;

ATMOSPHERIC BOUNDARY LAYER; LEGO BRICKS; ROUGHNESS ELEMENTS; ROUGHNESS HEIGHT; SCALE EFFECTS; SCALE RATIO OF BOUNDARY LAYER THICKNESS;

WIND TUNNELS;

SCALE EFFECTS; WIND TUNNEL MODELLING;

EID: 0030186028     PISSN: 01676105     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/0167-6105(96)00049-9     Document Type: Article

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