A laboratory tornado simulator: Comparison of laboratory, numerical and full-scale measurements

10th Americas Conference on Wind Engineering, ACWE 2005

Volumn , Issue , 2005, Pages

  Sarkar, Partha P ^a   Haan Jr , Fred L ^a   Gallus Jr , William A ^b   Le, Kuai ^b   Kardell, Ryan ^a   Wurman, Joshua ^c  

^a Iowa State University   (United States)

^b IOWA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c Center for Severe Weather Research Colorado   (United States)

Author keywords

Doppler radar data; Flow measurement and comparison; Loads on tall buildings; Tornado laboratory simulation; Tornado like vortex CFD simulation

Indexed keywords

CFD SIMULATIONS; ENGINEERED STRUCTURES; FULL SCALE MEASUREMENTS; LABORATORY SIMULATION; LABORATORY SIMULATORS; LABORATORY TORNADO SIMULATOR; TANGENTIAL VELOCITIES; TORNADO-LIKE VORTEX;

COMPUTATIONAL FLUID DYNAMICS; DOPPLER RADAR; DUCTS; LABORATORIES; MUSCLE; NUMERICAL MODELS; SIMULATORS; TALL BUILDINGS; VORTEX FLOW; WIND TUNNELS;

TORNADOES;

EID: 84886920478     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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