Modeling flow around bluff bodies and predicting urban dispersion using large eddy simulation

Environmental Science and Technology

Volumn 40, Issue 8, 2006, Pages 2653-2662

  Tseng, Yu Heng ^a,d   Meneveau, Charles ^a   Parlange, Marc B ^b,c  

^a Johns Hopkins University   (United States)

^b The Johns Hopkins University   (United States)

^c EPFL   (Switzerland)

^d LAWRENCE BERKELEY NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BOUNDARY LAYER FLOW; COMPUTER SIMULATION; CONCENTRATION (PROCESS); DISPERSIONS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; NUMERICAL ANALYSIS; VISCOSITY;

BLUFF BODIES; LARGE EDDY SIMULATIONS (LES); POLLUTANT TRANSPORT; SUBGRID SCALE VISCOSITY (SGSV);

FLOW INTERACTIONS;

BOUNDARY LAYER FLOW; COMPUTER SIMULATION; CONCENTRATION (PROCESS); DISPERSIONS; FLOW INTERACTIONS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; NUMERICAL ANALYSIS; VISCOSITY;

ATMOSPHERIC POLLUTION; BOUNDARY LAYER; DISPERSION; LAGRANGIAN ANALYSIS; LARGE EDDY SIMULATION; POLLUTANT TRANSPORT; TOPOGRAPHY; URBAN ATMOSPHERE;

AIR POLLUTANT; AIRFLOW; ARTICLE; ATMOSPHERIC DISPERSION; MATHEMATICAL MODEL; SIMULATION; URBAN AREA; VALIDATION PROCESS; VISCOSITY;

AIR MOVEMENTS; AIR POLLUTANTS; ARCHITECTURE; CITIES; COMPUTER SIMULATION; MODELS, THEORETICAL;

EID: 33646040715     PISSN: 0013936X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/es051708m     Document Type: Article

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