Characterization of wind loading of telescopes

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 4757, Issue , 2002, Pages 72-83

  Angeli, George Z ^a   Cho, Myung K ^a   Sheehan, Michael ^b   Stepp, Larry M ^a  

^a AURA   (United States)

^b United States Gemini Office   (United States)

Author keywords

Large telescopes; Wind buffeting; Wind model

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC TURBULENCE; BANDWIDTH; COMPUTATIONAL FLUID DYNAMICS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DATA REDUCTION; PROBLEM SOLVING; REFRACTIVE INDEX; WIND EFFECTS;

WIND MODELS;

OPTICAL TELESCOPES;

EID: 0036454634     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.489825     Document Type: Conference Paper

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