A wind tunnel study on wind speed reduction of technical textiles used as windscreen

Geotextiles and Geomembranes

Volumn 19, Issue 1, 2001, Pages 59-73

  Dierickx, W ^a   Gabriels, D ^b   Cornelis, W ^b  

^a Centrum voor Landbouwkundig Onderzoek Gent CLO / Centre de Recherches Agronomiques Gand   (Belgium)

^b GHENT UNIVERSITY   (Belgium)

Author keywords

Flow reduction coefficient; Open area; Relative wind speed reduction; Synthetic windscreens; Technical textiles; Wind tunnel study

Indexed keywords

GEOTEXTILE; TECHNICAL TEXTILE; TESTING;

SURFACE ROUGHNESS; TURBULENCE; TURBULENT FLOW; WIND EFFECTS; WIND TUNNELS;

FLOW REDUCTION COEFFICIENT; RELATIVE WIND SPEED REDUCTION; SYNTHETIC WINDSCREENS;

GEOTEXTILES;

EID: 0034744580     PISSN: 02661144     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0266-1144(00)00004-2     Document Type: Article

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