Experimental and numerical characterization of the flowfield in the large-scale UW live fire research facility

International Journal for Numerical Methods in Fluids

Volumn 60, Issue 5, 2009, Pages 539-564

  Devaud, C B ^a   Weisinger, J ^a   Johnson, D A ^a   Weckaman, E J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WATERLOO   (Canada)

Author keywords

Crossflow; Flowfield; Large scale facility; LES; Velocity measurements

Indexed keywords

CORE REGION; CROSSFLOW; EXPERIMENTAL STUDIES; EXPERIMENTAL TECHNIQUES; EXPERIMENTAL UNCERTAINTY; FLOW CHARACTERISTIC; FLOW DIRECTION; FUEL SPILLS; INFLOW CONDITIONS; LARGE SCALE EXPERIMENTS; LARGE-SCALE FACILITY; LES; LIVE-FIRE; NUMERICAL CHARACTERIZATION; NUMERICAL PREDICTIONS; RECIRCULATION REGIONS; SHEDDING FREQUENCIES; TIME-AVERAGED VELOCITY; UNIVERSITY OF WATERLOO; VELOCITY PROFILES; WALL JET;

CYLINDERS (SHAPES); ENCLOSURES; FLOW FIELDS; LARGE EDDY SIMULATION; VELOCIMETERS; VELOCITY MEASUREMENT; WAKES;

VELOCITY;

EID: 67649995712     PISSN: 02712091     EISSN: 10970363     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/fld.1906     Document Type: Article

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