Numerical and experimental studies on flow and pollutant dispersion in urban street canyons

Advances in Atmospheric Sciences

Volumn 24, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 111-125

  Jiang, Yujun ^a   Liu, Huizhi ^b   Sang, Jianguo ^a   Zhang, Boyin ^a  

^a PEKING UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b INSTITUTE OF ATMOSPHERIC PHYSICS   (China)

Author keywords

Numerical simulation; Pollutant dispersion; Urban street canyon; Water tank experiment

Indexed keywords

EID: 33846794866     PISSN: 02561530     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00376-007-0111-0     Document Type: Article

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