Turbulent flow similarity over an array of cubes in near-neutrally stratified atmospheric flow

Journal of Fluid Mechanics

Volumn 615, Issue , 2008, Pages 101-120

  Inagaki, A ^a   Kanda, M ^a  

^a TOKYO INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC MOVEMENTS; BOUNDARY LAYER FLOW; BOUNDARY LAYERS; CONCRETES; REYNOLDS NUMBER; SURFACE ROUGHNESS; TURBULENCE; TURBULENT FLOW; WIND TUNNELS;

HIGH REYNOLDS NUMBER; HORIZONTAL VELOCITY; NEAR-WALL TURBULENCE; NEUTRALLY STRATIFIED; TURBULENT BOUNDARY LAYERS; TURBULENT SPECTRUM; VELOCITY FLUCTUATIONS; WIND TUNNEL EXPERIMENT;

ATMOSPHERIC THERMODYNAMICS;

AIRFLOW; DATA SET; REYNOLDS NUMBER; STRATIFIED FLOW; TURBULENT BOUNDARY LAYER; TURBULENT FLOW; WIND TUNNEL;

EID: 56049122702     PISSN: 00221120     EISSN: 14697645     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S0022112008003765     Document Type: Article

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