Numerical investigation of effects of rotating downdraft on tornado-like-vortex characteristics |
Cao, Shuyang
(State Key Lab of Disaster Reduction in Civil Engineering, Tongji University)
Wang, Mengen (College of Civil Engineering, Tongji University) Zhu, Jinwei (Shanghai Urban Construction Design & Research Institute Shanghai) Cao, Jinxin (State Key Lab of Disaster Reduction in Civil Engineering, Tongji University) Tamura, Tetsuro (Tokyo Institute of Technology) Yang, Qingshan (Chongqing University) |
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