Physical and numerical modelling of thunderstorm downbursts

Journal of Wind Engineering and Industrial Aerodynamics

Volumn 89, Issue 6, 2001, Pages 535-552

  Wood, Graeme S ^a   Kwok, Kenny C S ^a   Motteram, Nicholas A ^a   Fletcher, David F ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Computational fluid dynamics; Thunderstorm downburst; Topographical speed up factors; Velocity profile

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; FLOW MEASUREMENT; FLUID DYNAMICS; NUMERICAL METHODS; VELOCITY;

IMPINGING JETS; TOPOGRAPHY;

THUNDERSTORMS;

COMPUTATIONAL FLUID DYNAMICS; JET IMPINGEMENT; MATHEMATICAL MODELING; PHYSICAL MODELING; THUNDERSTORM; TOPOGRAPHY; VELOCITY PROFILE;

EID: 0035335869     PISSN: 01676105     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0167-6105(00)00090-8     Document Type: Article

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