Experiments on the wind tunnel simulation of atmospheric boundary layers

Journal of Wind Engineering and Industrial Aerodynamics

Volumn 79, Issue 1-2, 1999, Pages 11-35

  Farell, Cesar ^a   Iyengar, Arun K S ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BOUNDARY LAYER FLOW; REYNOLDS NUMBER; SHEAR STRESS; SURFACE ROUGHNESS; TURBULENT FLOW; WIND TUNNELS;

URBAN TERRAINS;

WIND EFFECTS;

ATMOSPHERIC BOUNDARY LAYER; URBAN AREA; WIND TUNNEL MODELING;

EID: 0032795384     PISSN: 01676105     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0167-6105(98)00117-2     Document Type: Article

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