Experimental surface flow visualization and numerical investigation of flow structure around an oblong stockpile

Environmental Fluid Mechanics

Volumn 12, Issue 6, 2012, Pages 533-553

  Furieri, B ^a   Russeil, S ^a   Harion, J L ^a   Turpin, C ^a   Santos, J M ^b  

^a ECOLE DES MINES DE DOUAI   (France)

^b FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF ESPÍRITO SANTO   (Brazil)

Author keywords

Computational fluid dynamics; Flow topology around stockpiles; Oil film surface visualization; Particle image velocimetry; Wall shear stress; Wind tunnel experiments

Indexed keywords

AIRFLOW; COMPUTATIONAL FLUID DYNAMICS; FLOW AROUND OBJECT; FLOW STRUCTURE; NUMERICAL MODEL; SHEAR STRESS; VISUALIZATION; VORTEX FLOW; WIND DIRECTION; WIND TUNNEL;

EID: 84870384037     PISSN: 15677419     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10652-012-9249-0     Document Type: Article

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