Wind Tunnel Simulations of the Mock Urban Setting Test - Experimental Procedures and Data Analysis

Abstract

The MUST experiment was a large outdoor field study in atmospheric dispersion, attempting to simulate an urban boundary layer by the construction of a regular array of shipping containers. The current report gives details of a wind tunnel dispersion study of the MUST array, aimed at bridging some of the gaps between laboratory and full-scale outdoor trials. The experimental setup and wind tunnel instrumentation are discussed in detail, the measurements made together with the organisation of the dataset if fully described, and a comprehensive description of the data analysis techniques is given. Emphasis is placed on the scaling arguments used to compare data between a wind tunnel and full-scale study, and on methods of uncertainty analysis to provide a rigorous underpinning to the dataset. The report serves as a complete documentation for users of the MUST wind tunnel simulation dataset, which can be obtained by contacting the author.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Jul 01, 2004
Accession Number
ADA429005

Entities

People

  • Ralph Gailis

Organizations

  • Defence Science and Technology Group

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • C4I
  • Counter WMD
  • Energy and Power Technologies
  • Weapons Technologies

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Algorithms
  • Boundary Layer
  • Computational Fluid Dynamics
  • Computational Science
  • Data Mining
  • Data Processing
  • Data Science
  • Fluid Flow
  • Information Processing
  • Information Science
  • Random Variables
  • Stationary Processes
  • Statistical Algorithms
  • Statistical Analysis
  • Stochastic Processes
  • Turbulence
  • Wind Tunnels

Readers

  • Computational Modeling and Simulation
  • Fluid Dynamics.