Numerical investigation of the pollution dispersion in an urban street canyon

Environmental Modelling and Software

Volumn 21, Issue 4, 2006, Pages 525-531

  Neofytou, P ^a   Venetsanos, A G ^a   Rafailidis, S ^a   Bartzis, J G ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF NANOSCIENCE AND NANOTECHNOLOGY   (Greece)

Author keywords

Computational fluid dynamics; Remote optical measurement techniques; Street canyon

Indexed keywords

COMPUTATIONAL FLUID DYNAMICS; NAVIER STOKES EQUATIONS; OPTICAL VARIABLES MEASUREMENT; REYNOLDS NUMBER; ROADS AND STREETS; URBAN PLANNING;

POLLUTION DISPERSION; REMOTE OPTICAL MEASUREMENT TECHNIQUES; REYNOLDS AVERAGED NAVIER-STOKES (RANS); STREET CANYONS;

AIR POLLUTION;

ATMOSPHERIC POLLUTION; COMPUTATIONAL FLUID DYNAMICS; DISPERSION; NAVIER-STOKES EQUATIONS; STREET CANYON; URBAN ATMOSPHERE;

EID: 32144458460     PISSN: 13648152     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.envsoft.2004.08.012     Document Type: Conference Paper

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