Characterization of the wind loads and flow fields around a gable-roof building model in tornado-like winds

Experiments in Fluids

Volumn 51, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 835-851

  Hu, Hui ^a   Yang, Zifeng ^a   Sarkar, Partha ^a   Haan, Fred ^a,b  

^a Iowa State University   (United States)

^b ROSE HULMAN INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACCURATE PREDICTION; BUILDING MODEL; DIGITAL PARTICLE IMAGE VELOCIMETRY; ENGINEERING DEPARTMENT; EXPERIMENTAL STUDIES; FLOW FIELD MEASUREMENT; FLOW-STRUCTURE INTERACTION; IOWA STATE UNIVERSITY; ORIENTATION ANGLES; SURFACE PRESSURES; TEST MODELS; TORNADO-LIKE VORTEX; UNSTEADY VORTICES; WAKE VORTEX; WIND DAMAGE; WIND LOAD;

AERODYNAMIC LOADS; AEROSPACE ENGINEERING; BUILDINGS; FLOW FIELDS; FLOW STRUCTURE; LOADS (FORCES); ROOFS; TURBULENT FLOW; VELOCITY MEASUREMENT; VORTEX FLOW; WIND; WIND STRESS;

TORNADOES;

EID: 80052676259     PISSN: 07234864     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00348-011-1102-6     Document Type: Article

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