Thunderstorms - Their importance in wind engineering (a case for the next generation wind tunnel)

Journal of Wind Engineering and Industrial Aerodynamics

Volumn 90, Issue 12-15, 2002, Pages 1415-1433

  Letchford, C W ^a,b   Mans, C ^b   Chay, M T ^a  

^a Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BOUNDARY LAYER FLOW; ENGINEERING RESEARCH; THUNDERSTORMS; TORNADOES; WIND TUNNELS;

WIND ENGINEERING;

AERODYNAMICS;

THUNDERSTORM; TORNADO; WIND ENGINEERING; WIND FIELD;

ENGINEERING; THUNDERSTORM; TORNADO; WIND FIELD;

EID: 0036906445     PISSN: 01676105     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0167-6105(02)00262-3     Document Type: Article

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