Laboratory experiments of entrainment in dry convective boundary layers

16th Symposium on Boundary Layers and Turbulence

Volumn , Issue , 2004, Pages 195-200

  Jonker, Harm J J ^a   Heus, Thijs ^a   Hagen, Esther ^a   Van Dop, Han ^b  

^a DELFT UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Netherlands)

^b UTRECHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BUOYANCY; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DENSITY (SPECIFIC GRAVITY); FLUORESCENCE; HEAT CONVECTION; HEAT FLUX; PRANDTL NUMBER;

BUOYANCY FLUX; INVERSION STRENGTH; TWO-LAYER SYSTEMS; ZERO-ORDER MODELS;

BOUNDARY LAYERS;

EID: 23744439967     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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