Wind on the Euro50 enclosure

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 5495, Issue , 2004, Pages 537-548

  Riewaldt, Holger ^a,b   Lastiwka, Martin ^b   Quinlan, Nathan ^b   McNamara, Kevin ^b   Wang, Xin ^b   Andersen, Torben ^a   Shearer, Andrew ^b  

^a LUND UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^b NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF IRELAND   (Ireland)

Author keywords

CFD; Enclosure; Euro50; Extremely large telescopes; Wind load; Wind tunnel

Indexed keywords

AIRFLOW; EURO50; EXTREMELY LARGE TELESCOPES (ELT); WIND LOAD;

COMPUTATIONAL FLUID DYNAMICS; CONTROL SYSTEMS; DATA ACQUISITION; IMAGE QUALITY; OPTIMIZATION; SURFACE TOPOGRAPHY; TURBULENT FLOW; WIND TUNNELS;

TELESCOPES;

EID: 12344306367     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.551278     Document Type: Conference Paper

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