Near-Wake Turbulent Flow Structure and Mixing Length Downstream of a Fractal Tree

Boundary-Layer Meteorology

Volumn 143, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 285-308

  Bai, Kunlun ^a   Meneveau, Charles ^a   Katz, Joseph ^a  

^a Johns Hopkins University   (United States)

Author keywords

Eddy viscosity; Fractal; Mixing length; Multiscale; Near wake; Particle image velocimetry

Indexed keywords

EDDY VISCOSITY; MIXING LENGTH; MULTISCALES; NEAR WAKE; PARTICLE IMAGE VELOCIMETRY;

BOUNDARY LAYERS; FLOW VISUALIZATION; FORESTRY; FRACTALS; GEOMECHANICS; SHEAR FLOW; VELOCIMETERS; VELOCITY MEASUREMENT;

WAKES;

BOUNDARY LAYER; BOUSSINESQ EQUATION; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; FRACTAL ANALYSIS; NUMERICAL MODEL; REYNOLDS NUMBER; TURBULENT FLOW; WAKE;

BOUNDARIES; EDDY CURRENTS; IMAGE ANALYSIS; SHEAR FLOW; VELOCITY MEASUREMENT; VISCOSITY;

EID: 84859215073     PISSN: 00068314     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10546-012-9700-2     Document Type: Article

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