Comparison of wind-tunnel and water-channel simulations of plume dispersion through a large array of obstacles with a scaled field experiment

Boundary-Layer Meteorology

Volumn 121, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 389-432

  Yee, Eugene ^a   Gailis, Ralph M ^b   Hill, Alexander ^b   Hilderman, Trevor ^c   Kiel, Darwin ^c  

^a DEFENCE RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT CANADA   (Canada)

^b DEFENCE SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY ORGANISATION   (Australia)

^c Coanda Research and Development Corporation ^*  (Canada)

Author keywords

Concentration statistics; Obstacle array; Plume dispersion; Water channel; Wind tunnel

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; PROBABILITY DENSITY FUNCTION; STATISTICAL METHODS; VELOCITY MEASUREMENT; WIND TUNNELS;

CONTAMINANT PLUME; PLUME CONCENTRATION; PLUME DISPERSION; WATER CHANNEL;

THERMAL PLUMES;

COMPUTER SIMULATION; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; PROBABILITY DENSITY FUNCTION; STATISTICAL METHODS; THERMAL PLUMES; VELOCITY MEASUREMENT; WIND TUNNELS;

ATMOSPHERIC PLUME; DISPERSION; FIELD METHOD; MEASUREMENT METHOD; PROBABILITY DENSITY FUNCTION; WIND TUNNEL;

EID: 33846832795     PISSN: 00068314     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10546-006-9084-2     Document Type: Article

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