Mean flow and turbulence statistics over groups of urban-like cubical obstacles

Boundary-Layer Meteorology

Volumn 121, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 491-519

  Coceal, O ^a   Thomas, T G ^b   Castro, I P ^b   Belcher, S E ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF READING   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHAMPTON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Direct numerical simulation; Three dimensional roughness; Urban Meteorology

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC PRESSURE; ATMOSPHERIC TURBULENCE; BOUNDARY LAYERS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DRAG; PRESSURE MEASUREMENT; STRESSES; TURBULENT FLOW;

PRESSURE DRAG; TURBULENCE STATISTICS; TURBULENT STRESSES; URBAN METEOROLOGY;

METEOROLOGY;

ATMOSPHERIC PRESSURE; ATMOSPHERIC TURBULENCE; BOUNDARY LAYERS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DRAG; METEOROLOGY; PRESSURE MEASUREMENT; STRESSES; TURBULENT FLOW;

NUMERICAL MODEL; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; TURBULENT BOUNDARY LAYER; TURBULENT FLOW; URBAN ATMOSPHERE;

EID: 34447092394     PISSN: 00068314     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10546-006-9076-2     Document Type: Article

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