Aerodynamic Parameters of Urban Building Arrays with Random Geometries

Boundary-Layer Meteorology

Volumn 138, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 99-120

  Zaki, Sheikh Ahmad ^a   Hagishima, Aya ^b   Tanimoto, Jun ^b   Ikegaya, Naoki ^b  

^a UTM RAZAK SCHOOL OF ENGINEERING AND ADVANCED TECHNOLOGY   (Malaysia)

^b KYUSHU UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Displacement height; Drag coefficient; Roughness length; Urban building arrays; Wind tunnel experiments

Indexed keywords

AERODYNAMIC DRAG; ASPECT RATIO; BUILDINGS; DRAG COEFFICIENT; GEOMETRY; PARAMETER ESTIMATION; RANDOM PROCESSES; WIND TUNNELS;

AERODYNAMIC PARAMETERS; DISPLACEMENT HEIGHT; FLOW CHARAC-TERISTICS; MEAN WIND PROFILES; ROUGHNESS LENGTH; STANDARD DEVIATION; URBAN BUILDINGS; WIND TUNNEL EXPERIMENT;

AERODYNAMICS;

AERODYNAMICS; BOUNDARY LAYER; BUILDING; DRAG; EXPERIMENTAL STUDY; HEIGHT; URBAN ATMOSPHERE; WIND TUNNEL;

EID: 78650521051     PISSN: 00068314     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10546-010-9551-7     Document Type: Article

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