A wind tunnel study of the airflow field and shelter efficiency of mixed windbreaks

Windbreaks have been widely used in northern China and many other arid and semiarid areas in the world to reduce wind speed, wind erosion and counter sand dune encroachment. Although there has been a considerable number of studies examining the changes of airflow and the shelter efficiencies for windbreaks composed of different plant types, more in-depth studies are still needed to investigate the case of mixed windbreaks. Here, we used model...