Wind tunnel investigation and numerical simulation of the near wake dynamics for rectangular obstacles

Environmental Engineering Science

Volumn 25, Issue 7, 2008, Pages 1037-1060

  Saïd, Nejla Mahjoub ^a   Mhiri, Hatem ^b   Philippe, Caminat ^c   Palec, Georges Le ^c   Philippe, Bournot ^c  

^a FACULTÉ DES SCIENCES DE MONASTIR   (Tunisia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MONASTIR   (Tunisia)

^c University of Mediterranean   (France)

Author keywords

Angle of attack; Experimental study; Flow reattachment; Numerical simulation; Recirculation zone; Surface mounted obstacle; Turbulent flow

Indexed keywords

ANGLE OF ATTACK; COMPUTATIONAL FLUID DYNAMICS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; FLOW FIELDS; NUMERICAL MODELS; REYNOLDS NUMBER; TURBULENCE MODELS; TURBULENT FLOW; VELOCITY MEASUREMENT; WIND TUNNELS;

EXPERIMENTAL INVESTIGATIONS; EXPERIMENTAL STUDY; EXPERIMENTAL TECHNIQUES; FLOW REATTACHMENT; QUANTITATIVE INFORMATION; RECIRCULATION ZONES; SURFACE-MOUNTED; THREE-DIMENSIONAL NUMERICAL MODELING;

THREE DIMENSIONAL COMPUTER GRAPHICS;

ARTICLE; DYNAMICS; FLUID FLOW; MODEL; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; SIMULATION; TECHNIQUE; TURBULENT FLOW; VORTEX MOTION;

EID: 51149121456     PISSN: 10928758     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1089/ees.2007.0169     Document Type: Article

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