Wind flow modeling and simulation over the Giza Plateau cultural heritage site in Egypt

Journal on Computing and Cultural Heritage

Volumn 2, Issue 2, 2009, Pages

  Hussein, Ashraf S ^a,b   El Shishiny, Hisham ^b  

^a Ain Shams University   (Egypt)

^b IBM Center for Advanced Studies in Cairo   (Egypt)

Author keywords

Computational fluid dynamics; Cultural heritage; Giza Plateau; Great Sphinx; Wind modeling and simulation; Wind over heritage sites

Indexed keywords

FLUID DYNAMICS; NAVIER STOKES EQUATIONS; STORMS; WIND; WIND EFFECTS;

CULTURAL HERITAGES; GIZA PLATEAU; GREAT SPHINX; WIND MODELING; WIND OVER HERITAGE SITES;

COMPUTATIONAL FLUID DYNAMICS;

EID: 84979796643     PISSN: 15564673     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1145/1613672.1613674     Document Type: Article

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