People

Post Doctoral Fellow	René van Hout
Graduate Student	Weihong Zhu
Undergraduate Student	Brent Golden
Project Supervisors	Prof. Joseph Katz
Design and Technical Support	Yury Ronzhes Stephen King

Outline

The aim of the experiments carried out in the windtunnel is to get a better understanding of the entrainment of the pollen grains in the shear layer just above the corn canopy, shortly after initial release from the anther.

Facility

Wind-tunnel model canopy and experimental setup (not to scale)

Configuration of model canopy (Top view, to scale)

Publications

Zhu, W. (2006). PIV measurements of flow structure and turbulence within and above a corn canopy and a wind tunnel model canopy. Ph.D. dissertation, Johns Hopkins University.

Zhu, W., van Hout, R., Katz, J., On the flow structure and turbulence during sweep and ejection events in a model canopy Boundary-Layer Meteorology, Volume 124, Number 2, pp. 205-233, August 2007.

Zhu, W., van Hout, R., Luznik, L., Kang, H. S., Katz, J., Meneveau, C., A comparison of PIV measurements of canopy turbulence performed in the field and in a wind tunnel model Experiments in Fluids, Volume 41, Issue 2, pp. 309-318, August 2006.

Zhu, W., van Hout, R., Katz, J., A comparison of methods to estimate the dissipation rate in a wind tunnel canopy flow model 17th Symposium on Boundary Layers and Turbulence, San Diego, CA, May 22-26, 2006.