Urban wind flows: Wind tunnel and numerical simulations - A preliminary comparison

Environmental Modelling and Software

Volumn 13, Issue 3-4, 1998, Pages 279-286

  Johnson, G T ^a   Hunter, L J ^a  

^a MACQUARIE UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Dispersion; Numerical model; Urban canyon; Wind flow; Wind tunnel

Indexed keywords

BOUNDARY LAYERS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; HEAT TRANSFER; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; WIND TUNNELS;

URBAN CANYON; URBAN WIND FLOWS;

WIND;

MATHEMATICAL MODELING; URBAN AREA; WIND TUNNEL MODELING;

BOUNDARY LAYER; HEAT FLOW; URBAN AREA; WIND;

EID: 0032193879     PISSN: 13648152     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S1364-8152(98)00028-0     Document Type: Article

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