Aerodynamic modelling of trees for small-scale wind tunnel studies

Forestry

Volumn 81, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 243-258

  Gromke, Christof ^a   Ruck, Bodo ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF KARLSRUHE   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AERODYNAMICS; BOUNDARY LAYER; BUSHLAND; DRAG COEFFICIENT; ECOLOGICAL MODELING; EDDY; FLOW FIELD; FLUID MECHANICS; POROSITY; SPECTRAL ANALYSIS; VEGETATION STRUCTURE; WIND TUNNEL; WIND VELOCITY;

EID: 49749144767     PISSN: 0015752X     EISSN: 14643626     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/forestry/cpn027     Document Type: Article

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