A wind-tunnel study on exhaust gas dispersion from road vehicles-Part I: Velocity and concentration fields behind single vehicles

Journal of Wind Engineering and Industrial Aerodynamics

Volumn 94, Issue 9, 2006, Pages 639-658

  Kanda, Isao ^a   Uehara, Kiyoshi ^a   Yamao, Yukio ^a   Yoshikawa, Yasuo ^b   Morikawa, Tazuko ^b  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR ENVIRONMENTAL STUDIES   (Japan)

^b Petroleum Energy Center   (Japan)

Author keywords

Air pollution; Exhaust buoyancy; Particle image velocimetry; Traffic emissions; Wind tunnel

Indexed keywords

AIR POLLUTION; AUTOMOBILES; BUOYANCY; EXHAUST GASES; GAS EMISSIONS; VELOCITY MEASUREMENT; WAKES; WIND TUNNELS;

EXHAUST BUOYANCY; EXHAUST GAS DISPERSION; PARTICLE IMAGE VELOCIMETRY;

GAS DYNAMICS;

AIR POLLUTION; AUTOMOBILES; BUOYANCY; EXHAUST GASES; GAS DYNAMICS; GAS EMISSIONS; VELOCITY MEASUREMENT; WAKES; WIND TUNNELS;

EID: 33747768550     PISSN: 01676105     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jweia.2005.12.003     Document Type: Article

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