Measurements of flows over isolated valleys

Boundary-Layer Meteorology

Volumn 117, Issue 3, 2005, Pages 417-446

  Garvey, Brian ^a,b   Castro, Ian P ^b   Wiggs, Giles ^a   Bullard, Joanna ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SHEFFIELD   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHAMPTON   (United Kingdom)

^c LOUGHBOROUGH UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Boundary layer; Isolated valleys; Wind tunnel

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC TURBULENCE; BOUNDARY LAYERS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; TURBULENT FLOW; VELOCITY MEASUREMENT; WIND TUNNELS;

ATMOSPHERIC BOUNDARY LAYER; PARTICLE IMAGE VELOCIMETRY;

FLOW MEASUREMENT;

ATMOSPHERIC TURBULENCE; BOUNDARY LAYERS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; FLOW MEASUREMENT; TURBULENT FLOW; VELOCITY MEASUREMENT; WIND TUNNELS;

AIRFLOW; BOUNDARY LAYER; FLOW MEASUREMENT; TURBULENCE; VALLEY; WIND TUNNEL;

EID: 32044442740     PISSN: 00068314     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10546-005-2079-6     Document Type: Article

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