Wind-Tunnel Experiments for Gas Dispersion in an Atmospheric Boundary Layer with Large-Scale Turbulent Motion

Boundary-Layer Meteorology

Volumn 141, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 35-51

  Michioka, Takenobu ^a   Sato, Ayumu ^a   Sada, Koichi ^a  

^a CENTRAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE OF ELECTRIC POWER INDUSTRY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Active grid; Boundary layer simulation; Gas dispersion; Wind tunnel experiment

Indexed keywords

ACTIVE GRID; ANGULAR DEFLECTION; BOUNDARY-LAYER SIMULATION; CONCENTRATION FLUCTUATION; EMPIRICAL RELATIONS; FIELD OBSERVATIONS; GAS DISPERSION; LATERAL GAS; LATERAL VELOCITIES; LOW FREQUENCY REGIONS; MINIMAL EFFECTS; PEAK CONCENTRATIONS; POWER-SPECTRA; RELATIVE CONTRIBUTION; REYNOLDS SHEAR STRESS; ROOT-MEAN-SQUARED; ROTATION SPEED; TEST SECTIONS; TURBULENT MOTION; VERTICAL VELOCITY; WIND TUNNEL EXPERIMENT;

ATMOSPHERIC BOUNDARY LAYER; ATMOSPHERIC TURBULENCE; BOUNDARY LAYER FLOW; DISPERSIONS; EXPERIMENTS; GASES; POWER SPECTRUM; TROPOSPHERE; WIND TUNNELS;

ATMOSPHERIC THERMODYNAMICS;

COMPUTER SIMULATION; REYNOLDS NUMBER; TURBULENT BOUNDARY LAYER; TURBULENT FLOW; WIND TUNNEL;

EID: 80052279300     PISSN: 00068314     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10546-011-9633-1     Document Type: Article

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