Scale and roughness effects in impinging jets with application to downburst simulations

10th Americas Conference on Wind Engineering, ACWE 2005

Volumn , Issue , 2005, Pages

  Hangan, Horia ^a   Xu, Zhuyun ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN ONTARIO   (Canada)

Author keywords

Downbursts; Impinging jets; Roughness effects; Scale effects; Turbulence intensity effects

Indexed keywords

DOWNBURSTS; IMPINGING JET; ROUGHNESS EFFECTS; SCALE EFFECTS; TURBULENCE INTENSITY;

EXPERIMENTS; REYNOLDS NUMBER; SURFACE ROUGHNESS; VELOCITY;

BOUNDARY LAYERS;

EID: 84886925935     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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