Uncertainties associated with the full-scale to wind tunnel pressure coefficient extrapolation

10th Americas Conference on Wind Engineering, ACWE 2005

Volumn , Issue , 2005, Pages

  Long, Fei ^a   Smith, Douglas A ^a   Zhu, Hongchao ^a   Gilliam, Kathleen ^b  

^a Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering   (United States)

^b TEXAS TECH UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Comparison; Full scale; Mean extreme pressure coefficients; Time series; Uncertainty

Indexed keywords

COMPARISON; EXTREME PRESSURE; FULL SCALE; PRESSURE COEFFICIENTS; UNCERTAINTY;

EXTRAPOLATION; WIND TUNNELS;

TIME SERIES;

EID: 84886940609     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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