Experimental and numerical study of wind flow behind windbreaks

Atmospheric Environment

Volumn 41, Issue 30, 2007, Pages 6406-6420

  Santiago, J L ^a   Martin F ^a   Cuerva, A ^b   Bezdenejnykh, N ^b   Sanz Andres A ^b  

^a CIEMAT   (Spain)

^b Technical University of Madrid UPM   (Spain)

Author keywords

CFD modelling; Porosity; Wind tunnel experiments; Windbreaks

Indexed keywords

COMPUTATIONAL FLUID DYNAMICS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; NAVIER STOKES EQUATIONS; PARTICULATE EMISSIONS; POROSITY; TURBULENCE MODELS; WIND TUNNELS;

AGGREGATE PILES; TURBULENCE CLOSURE MODELS; WIND TUNNEL EXPERIMENTS; WINDBREAKS;

WIND EFFECTS;

EXPERIMENTAL STUDY; POROSITY; SIMULATION; WIND BREAK; WIND TUNNEL;

ARTICLE; EXPERIMENT; MODEL; POROSITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SIMULATION; WIND;

EID: 34548653087     PISSN: 13522310     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.atmosenv.2007.01.014     Document Type: Article

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