Shelterbelts and windbreaks: Mathematical modeling and computer simulations of turbulent flows

Annual Review of Fluid Mechanics

Volumn 33, Issue , 2001, Pages 549-586

  Wang, Hao ^a   Takle, Eugene S ^a   Shen, Jinmei ^a  

^a Iowa State University   (United States)

Author keywords

Aerodynamics; Environmental fluid dynamics; Heat and moisture transfer; Parallel and distributed computing; Porous media flows; Turbulent flows; Wind engineering

Indexed keywords

AERODYNAMICS; COMPUTATIONAL FLUID DYNAMICS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; COMPUTER WORKSTATIONS; HEAT FLUX; HEAT TRANSFER; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; MOISTURE; PARALLEL PROCESSING SYSTEMS; WIND EFFECTS;

EVAPOTRANSPIRATION; SHELTERBELTS; WINDBREAKS;

TURBULENT FLOW;

EID: 0034976914     PISSN: 00664189     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1146/annurev.fluid.33.1.549     Document Type: Article

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