Influence of swirl ratio and incident flow conditions on generation of tornado-like vortex

5th European and African Conference on Wind Engineering, EACWE 5, Proceedings

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages

  Matsui, Masahiro ^a   Tamura, Yukio ^a  

^a TOKYO POLYTECHNIC UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Flow visualization; Roughness; Shear flow; Swirl ratio; Tornado like flow

Indexed keywords

GUIDE VANE; INCIDENT FLOW; INFLOW CONDITIONS; STRONG WINDS; SWIRL RATIO; TORNADO WIND FIELD; TORNADO-LIKE FLOW; TORNADO-LIKE VORTEX; VISUALIZATION EXPERIMENT; WIND SPEED MEASUREMENT;

ENVIRONMENTAL ENGINEERING; FLOW VISUALIZATION; SURFACE ROUGHNESS; TORNADOES;

SHEAR FLOW;

EID: 84857537918     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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