A computational fluid dynamics approach for urban area transport and dispersion modeling

Environmental Fluid Mechanics

Volumn 5, Issue 5, 2005, Pages 443-479

  Coirier, W J ^a   Fricker, D M ^a   Furmanczyk, M ^a   Kim, S ^a  

^a CFD RESEARCH CORPORATION   (United States)

Author keywords

Computational fluid dynamics; Urban area transport and dispersion

Indexed keywords

BOUNDARY CONDITIONS; COMPUTATIONAL FLUID DYNAMICS; COMPUTER AIDED SOFTWARE ENGINEERING; COMPUTER SIMULATION; GEOGRAPHIC INFORMATION SYSTEMS; INTERFACES (COMPUTER); MATHEMATICAL MODELS; NAVIER STOKES EQUATIONS; TURBULENCE; URBAN PLANNING; WIND TUNNELS;

BOUNDARY LAYER; COMPUTATIONAL FLUID DYNAMICS; DISPERSION; TURBULENCE; URBAN ATMOSPHERE; WIND FIELD;

EID: 31444441062     PISSN: 15677419     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10652-005-0299-4     Document Type: Article

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