A Wind-Tunnel Artificially-Thickened Simulated Weakly Unstable Atmospheric Boundary Layer

Boundary-Layer Meteorology

Volumn 149, Issue 3, 2013, Pages 355-380

  Hancock, P E ^a   Zhang, S ^b   Hayden, P ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SURREY   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MANCHESTER   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Atmospheric boundary layer; Convective boundary layer; Scaling laws; Wind tunnel experiment

Indexed keywords

CONVECTIVE BOUNDARY LAYERS; INLET TEMPERATURE; MODIFIED FUNCTION; SECOND ORDER MOMENT; SIMULATED LAYERS; SURFACE LAYERS; WIND TUNNEL EXPERIMENT; WIND-TUNNEL SIMULATION;

ATMOSPHERIC BOUNDARY LAYER; SCALING LAWS; WIND TUNNELS;

LOADING;

COMPARATIVE STUDY; COMPUTER SIMULATION; CONVECTIVE BOUNDARY LAYER; INTERPOLATION; MIXED LAYER; STRATIFIED FLOW; TEMPERATURE PROFILE; WIND TUNNEL;

EID: 84888052572     PISSN: 00068314     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10546-013-9847-5     Document Type: Article

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