Design, construction and performance of a large tornado simulator for wind engineering applications

Engineering Structures

Volumn 30, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 1146-1159

  Haan Jr , Fred L ^a   Sarkar, Partha P ^a   Gallus, William A ^b  

^a Iowa State University of Science and Technology   (United States)

^b IOWA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Tornado; Tornado simulator; Vortex; Wind engineering

Indexed keywords

AERODYNAMIC LOADS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DOPPLER RADAR; DUCTS; FLOW STRUCTURE; VORTEX FLOW; WIND;

REAR FLANK DOWNCRAFT; TORNADO SIMULATOR; TORNADO-LIKE VORTICES; WIND ENGINEERING;

TORNADOES;

AERODYNAMIC LOADS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DOPPLER RADAR; DUCTS; FLOW STRUCTURE; TORNADOES; VORTEX FLOW; WIND;

AERODYNAMICS; CONSTRUCTION; DESIGN; PERFORMANCE ASSESSMENT; SIMULATOR; TORNADO; VORTEX FLOW;

EID: 40249119763     PISSN: 01410296     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.engstruct.2007.07.010     Document Type: Article

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