Numerical studies on flow fields around buildings in an urban street canyon and cross-road

Advances in Atmospheric Sciences

Volumn 22, Issue 2, 2005, Pages 290-299

  Cheng, Xueling ^a   Hu, Fei ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF ATMOSPHERIC PHYSICS   (China)

Author keywords

Numerical simulation; Separating flow; Street canyon; Turbulence dispersion

Indexed keywords

EID: 15944382336     PISSN: 02561530     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/bf02918518     Document Type: Article

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