A scheme for drag partition over rough surfaces

Atmospheric Environment

Volumn 39, Issue 38, 2005, Pages 7351-7361

  Shao, Yaping ^a   Yang, Yan ^a  

^a CITY UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG   (Hong Kong)

Author keywords

Drag partition; Effective frontal area index; Rough surface; Roughness length; Turbulence

Indexed keywords

BOUNDARY LAYERS; DRAG; TURBULENCE; WIND TUNNELS;

DRAG PARTITION; EFFECTIVE FRONTAL AREA INDEX; ROUGH SURFACE; ROUGHNESS LENGTH;

SURFACE ROUGHNESS;

BOUNDARY LAYER; DRAG; SURFACE ROUGHNESS; TURBULENCE; WIND TUNNEL;

ARTICLE; BOUNDARY LAYER; CALCULATION; DENSITY; MEASUREMENT; PRESSURE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; SURFACE PROPERTY; TECHNIQUE; WIND;

EID: 27544437408     PISSN: 13522310     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.atmosenv.2005.09.014     Document Type: Article

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