On the estimation of wind speed in urban canyons for ventilation purposes-Part 2: Using of data driven techniques to calculate the more probable wind speed in urban canyons for low ambient wind speeds

Building and Environment

Volumn 43, Issue 8, 2008, Pages 1411-1418

  Santamouris, M ^a   Georgakis, C ^a   Niachou, A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ATHENS   (Greece)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC THERMODYNAMICS; BOUNDARY CONDITIONS; LANDFORMS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS;

DATA DRIVEN TECHNIQUES; WIND SPEEDS;

WIND;

ATMOSPHERIC THERMODYNAMICS; BOUNDARY CONDITIONS; LANDFORMS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; WIND;

BOUNDARY CONDITION; COMPARATIVE STUDY; COUPLING; ESTIMATION METHOD; EXPERIMENTAL STUDY; STREET CANYON; VENTILATION; WIND VELOCITY;

EID: 44049098095     PISSN: 03601323     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.buildenv.2007.01.042     Document Type: Article

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