Guidelines for airflow over complex terrain: Model developments

Journal of Wind Engineering and Industrial Aerodynamics

Volumn 86, Issue 2-3, 2000, Pages 169-186

  Weng, Wensong ^a   Taylor, Peter A ^a   Walmsley, John L ^b  

^a YORK UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b ENVIRONMENT CANADA   (Canada)

Author keywords

Fractional speed up ratio; Guidelines; Small scale topographic features

Indexed keywords

BOUNDARY LAYER FLOW; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; PROBLEM SOLVING; SURFACE ROUGHNESS;

COMPLEX TERRAIN;

WIND EFFECTS;

AIRFLOW; TOPOGRAPHY;

EID: 0033865645     PISSN: 01676105     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0167-6105(00)00009-X     Document Type: Article

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