Structure of turbulent flow over regular arrays of cubical roughness

Journal of Fluid Mechanics

Volumn 589, Issue , 2007, Pages 375-409

  Coceal, O ^a   Dobre, A ^a   Thomas, T G ^b   Belcher, S E ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF READING   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHAMPTON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; FLOW FIELDS; FLOW STRUCTURE; FLOW VISUALIZATION; PRESSURE GRADIENT; STATISTICAL METHODS; SURFACE ROUGHNESS; VORTICITY;

LINEAR STOCHASTIC ESTIMATION; LOW-MOMENTUM REGIONS;

TURBULENT FLOW;

COMPUTER SIMULATION; FLOW FIELDS; FLOW STRUCTURE; FLOW VISUALIZATION; PRESSURE GRADIENT; STATISTICAL METHODS; SURFACE ROUGHNESS; TURBULENT FLOW; VORTICITY;

ESTIMATION METHOD; FLOW MEASUREMENT; FLOW STRUCTURE; SPATIAL ANALYSIS; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; TURBULENT FLOW; VORTEX FLOW; WIND TUNNEL;

EID: 36749031303     PISSN: 00221120     EISSN: 14697645     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S002211200700794X     Document Type: Article

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