A wind tunnel study of turbulent flow around single and multiple windbreaks, part I: Velocity fields

Boundary-Layer Meteorology

Volumn 80, Issue 1-2, 1996, Pages 127-165

  Judd, M J ^a   Raupach, M R ^b   Finnigan, J J ^a  

^a THE NEW ZEALAND INSTITUTE FOR PLANT AND FOOD RESEARCH LIMITED   (New Zealand)

^b CSIRO   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC MOVEMENTS; BOUNDARY LAYER FLOW; BOUNDARY LAYERS; MIXING; QUAY WALLS; TURBOMACHINERY; TURBULENCE; TURBULENT FLOW; VELOCITY; WIND TUNNELS;

ATMOSPHERIC SURFACE LAYERS; CLASSICAL MIXING; CO-FLOWING STREAMS; INTERNAL BOUNDARY LAYER; MULTIPLE ARRAYS; SCALING PROPERTIES; TURBULENCE LEVEL; WIND TUNNEL EXPERIMENT;

ATMOSPHERIC THERMODYNAMICS;

TURBULENT FLOW; WIND; WIND PROFILES; WIND TUNNELS;

AIR FLOW; TURBULENCE; WIND TUNNEL; WINDBREAK;

EID: 0030422398     PISSN: 00068314     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/BF00119015     Document Type: Article

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