Flow around a cube in a turbulent boundary layer: LES and experiment

Journal of Wind Engineering and Industrial Aerodynamics

Volumn 97, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 96-109

  Lim, Hee Chang ^a   Thomas, T G ^a   Castro, Ian P ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHAMPTON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Bluff body; Large eddy simulation; Wind environment

Indexed keywords

APPROACH FLOWS; BLUFF BODY; COMPUTATIONAL MESHES; FINITE DIFFERENCES; GOVERNING EQUATIONS; LENGTH-SCALE; MULTI-GRID SOLVERS; MULTIBLOCK; NUMERICAL SIMULATIONS; RAPID CONVERGENCES; ROUGHNESS LENGTHS; SECOND ORDERS; SIMILAR DEGREES; SURFACE BOUNDARY CONDITIONS; SURFACE PRESSURES; TURBULENCE INTENSITIES; TURBULENT BOUNDARY LAYERS; WIND ENGINEERINGS; WIND ENVIRONMENT;

AERODYNAMICS; BOUNDARY LAYER FLOW; BOUNDARY LAYERS; LARGE EDDY SIMULATION; REYNOLDS NUMBER; TUNNELS; TURBULENCE; TURBULENT FLOW; WIND TUNNELS;

FLOW SIMULATION;

EID: 65049086801     PISSN: 01676105     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jweia.2009.01.001     Document Type: Article

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