Experimental study of topographic effects on gust wind speed

Journal of Wind Engineering and Industrial Aerodynamics

Volumn 97, Issue 9-10, 2009, Pages 426-438

  Ngo, Thanh T ^a,c   Letchford, Chris W ^a,b  

^a Texas Tech University   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TASMANIA   (Australia)

^c Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering   (United States)

Author keywords

Speed up; Surface roughness; Topographic effects; Wind codes; Wind tunnel

Indexed keywords

BOUNDARY LAYER WIND TUNNEL; EXPERIMENTAL STUDIES; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; GROUND-SURFACE ROUGHNESS; GUST WIND SPEED; MODEL SCALE; SPATIAL EXTENT; SPEED-UP; SPEED-UP FACTORS; SPEED-UPS; TEXAS TECH UNIVERSITY; TOPOGRAPHIC EFFECTS; TOPOGRAPHIC FEATURES; WIND CODES; WIND LOAD; WIND SPEED-UP; WIND TUNNEL EXPERIMENT;

AERODYNAMIC LOADS; AERODYNAMICS; LOADS (FORCES); METAL ANALYSIS; SPEED; SURFACE PROPERTIES; SURFACE ROUGHNESS; TUNNELS; WIND STRESS;

WIND TUNNELS;

EID: 71249159635     PISSN: 01676105     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jweia.2009.06.013     Document Type: Article

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