Wind-tunnel modelling of dispersion from a scalar area source in urban-like roughness

Boundary-Layer Meteorology

Volumn 126, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 103-124

  Pascheke, Frauke ^a,b   Barlow, Janet F ^a   Robins, Alan ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF READING   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SURREY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Area source; Area averaged turbulent fluxes; Concentration measurements; Naphthalene sublimation; Urban heat and pollutant dispersion; Wind tunnel

Indexed keywords

REYNOLDS NUMBER; THERMAL PLUMES; TURBULENT FLOW; WAKES; WIND; WIND TUNNELS;

FLAME IONISATION DETECTION; NAPHTHALENE SUBLIMATION METHOD; POLLUTANT DISPERSION; URBAN HEAT;

VENTILATION;

REYNOLDS NUMBER; THERMAL PLUMES; TURBULENT FLOW; VENTILATION; WAKES; WIND; WIND TUNNELS;

DISPERSION; HEAT ISLAND; IONIZATION; MODELING; NAPHTHALENE; REYNOLDS NUMBER; SUBLIMATION; URBAN POLLUTION; WIND TUNNEL;

EID: 36448940174     PISSN: 00068314     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10546-007-9222-5     Document Type: Article

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