The flow across a street canyon of variable width-Part 2:. Scalar dispersion from a street level line source

Atmospheric Environment

Volumn 42, Issue 10, 2008, Pages 2489-2503

  Simoëns, Serge ^a   Wallace, James M ^b  

^a LABORATOIRE DE MÉCANIQUE DES FLUIDES ET D ACOUSTIQUE   (France)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND   (United States)

Author keywords

Boundary layer; Concentration; Dispersion; Obstacles; PIV; Street canyon

Indexed keywords

BOUNDARY LAYERS; DISPERSIONS; FLOW VELOCITY; KINEMATICS; MEAN SQUARE ERROR; TURBULENT FLOW;

CONCENTRATION FIELD; PARTICLE IMAGE VELOCIMETRY; STREET CANYON;

FLOW PATTERNS;

AIRFLOW; ATMOSPHERIC MODELING; CONCENTRATION (COMPOSITION); DISPERSION; FLUX MEASUREMENT; KINEMATICS; REYNOLDS NUMBER; SMOKE; STREET CANYON; TURBULENT BOUNDARY LAYER;

AIR QUALITY; ARTICLE; DISPERSION; FLOW RATE; KINEMATICS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SMOKE; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; VELOCITY; VORTEX MOTION;

EID: 40249109768     PISSN: 13522310     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.atmosenv.2007.12.013     Document Type: Article

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