Roughness estimation for wind-load simulation experiments

Journal of Wind Engineering and Industrial Aerodynamics

Volumn 91, Issue 9, 2003, Pages 1163-1173

  Tieleman, Henry W ^a  

^a Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University   (United States)

Author keywords

Blending height; Displacement height; Roughness length; Small scale turbulence parameter; Turbulence integral scale; Turbulence intensity

Indexed keywords

STRUCTURAL LOADS; SURFACE ROUGHNESS; TURBULENCE;

ATMOSPHERIC SURFACE LAYERS;

WIND EFFECTS;

ATMOSPHERIC FLOW; FLOW SEPARATION; SURFACE ROUGHNESS; TURBULENCE; WIND LOAD; WIND TUNNEL MODELING;

EID: 0141573198     PISSN: 01676105     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0167-6105(03)00058-8     Document Type: Article

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