Application of the k-ε model to flow over a building placed in different roughness sublayers

Journal of Wind Engineering and Industrial Aerodynamics

Volumn 73, Issue 1, 1998, Pages 59-77

  Lakehal, D ^a,b  

^a Serv Aerodyn Environnement C   (France)

^b UNIVERSITY OF KARLSRUHE   (Germany)

Author keywords

Kupka building; Roughness; Sub layer; Turbulent

Indexed keywords

AIR; BOUNDARY LAYER FLOW; COMPUTER SIMULATION; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; REYNOLDS NUMBER; SURFACE ROUGHNESS; TURBULENT FLOW;

AIR FLOW;

BUILDINGS;

AIR FLOW; BUILDING; MODEL; TURBULENCE; WIND EFFECT;

BOUNDARY LAYER; BUILDING; SURFACE ROUGHNESS; TURBULENCE; WIND EFFECT;

EID: 0031597101     PISSN: 01676105     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0167-6105(97)00279-1     Document Type: Article

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