An experimental study of the flow through and over two dimensional rectangular roughness elements: Deductions for urban boundary layer parameterizations and exchange processes

Physics of Fluids

Volumn 26, Issue 8, 2014, Pages

  Neophytou, M K A ^a   Markides, C N ^b   Fokaides, P A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CYPRUS   (Cyprus)

^b IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FRICTION; GEOMETRY; KINETIC ENERGY; KINETICS; REYNOLDS NUMBER; SURFACE ROUGHNESS; TURBULENT FLOW; VELOCITY;

BOUNDARY LAYER STRUCTURE; PARTICLE IMAGE VELOCIMETERY; ROUGHNESS SUBLAYERS; SURFACE ROUGHNESS LENGTH; TURBULENT KINETIC ENERGY; TWO-DIMENSIONAL RECTANGULAR; URBAN BOUNDARY LAYERS; ZERO-PLANE DISPLACEMENT;

BOUNDARY LAYERS;

EID: 84923016337     PISSN: 10706631     EISSN: 10897666     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1063/1.4892979     Document Type: Article

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