LES of the slipstream of a rotating train

Journal of Fluids Engineering, Transactions of the ASME

Volumn 132, Issue 5, 2010, Pages 0511031-0511039

  Hemida, Hassan ^a   Gil, Nahia ^a   Baker, Chris ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BIRMINGHAM   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COHERENT STRUCTURE; COMPUTATIONAL MESH; EXPERIMENTAL DATA; FLOW REGIONS; GAP REGIONS; HIGH SPEED TRAINS; LINEARLY PROPORTIONAL; LONG DISTANCES; MINIMUM PRESSURE; RADIAL COMPONENT; SMAGORINSKY MODEL; SUB-GRID STRESS; SUPPORTING CYLINDER; TRAIN MODEL; UPSTREAM REGION; WAKE FLOWS; WAKE REGION;

REYNOLDS NUMBER; ROTATION; VELOCITY; WAKES;

ATMOSPHERIC BOUNDARY LAYER;

EID: 77955295578     PISSN: 00982202     EISSN: 1528901X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1115/1.4001447     Document Type: Article

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