Modeling and simulation of transient winds in downbursts/hurricanes

10th Americas Conference on Wind Engineering, ACWE 2005

Volumn , Issue , 2005, Pages

  Wang, Lijuan ^a   Kareem, Ahsan ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NOTRE DAME   (United States)

Author keywords

Downburst; Hilbert transform; Hurricane; Instantaneous frequency; Non stationary processes; Wavelet transform

Indexed keywords

DOWNBURSTS; EMPIRICAL MODE DECOMPOSITION; FLUCTUATING COMPONENTS; HILBERT TRANSFORM; INSTANTANEOUS FREQUENCY; MODEL AND SIMULATION; NONSTATIONARY PROCESS; TIME FREQUENCY ANALYSIS;

HILBERT SPACES; HURRICANES; WAVELET ANALYSIS; WAVELET TRANSFORMS; WIND;

COMPUTER SIMULATION;

EID: 84886905969     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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