Wind-driven rain on building faces and the driving-rain index

Journal of Wind Engineering and Industrial Aerodynamics

Volumn 79, Issue 1-2, 1999, Pages 105-122

  Choi, Edmund C C ^a  

^a NANYANG TECHNOLOGICAL UNIVERSITY   (Singapore)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BUILDINGS; COMPUTATIONAL FLUID DYNAMICS; STATISTICAL METHODS;

DRIVING-RAIN INDEX (DRI); WIND-DRIVEN RAIN;

WIND STRESS;

BUILDING; RAIN; WIND;

EID: 0032792575     PISSN: 01676105     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0167-6105(97)00296-1     Document Type: Article

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