Evaluation of the traffic producing turbulence within a modelled street canyon using computational fluid dynamics calculations

Proceedings of the 11th International Conference on Harmonisation within Atmospheric Dispersion Modelling for Regulatory Purposes, HARMO 2007

Volumn , Issue , 2007, Pages 264-268

  Solazzo, Efisio ^a   Cai, Xiaoming ^a   Vardoulakis, Sotiris ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BIRMINGHAM   (United Kingdom)

^b LONDON SCHOOL OF HYGIENE AND TROPICAL MEDICINE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC MOVEMENTS; ATMOSPHERIC THERMODYNAMICS; KINETIC ENERGY; KINETICS; TURBULENCE; WIND TUNNELS;

DOMINANT FACTOR; FULL-SCALE EXPERIMENT; STREET CANYON; TRAFFIC-RELATED POLLUTANTS; TURBULENT KINETIC ENERGY; URBAN STREET CANYON; WIND CONDITIONS; WIND-TUNNEL DATA;

COMPUTATIONAL FLUID DYNAMICS;

EID: 46349101878     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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