Dispersion and transfer of passive scalars in and above street canyons-Large-eddy simulations

Atmospheric Environment

Volumn 42, Issue 23, 2008, Pages 5885-5895

  Cai, X M ^a   Barlow, J F ^b   Belcher, S E ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BIRMINGHAM   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF READING   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Dispersion of passive scalars; Exchange coefficient; Large eddy simulation; Street canyon turbulence; Transfer velocity

Indexed keywords

AERODYNAMICS; AIR POLLUTION; ARCHITECTURAL DESIGN; ASPECT RATIO; ATMOSPHERICS; BOUNDARY CONDITIONS; BUILDINGS; COMPUTER INTEGRATED MANUFACTURING; DIMENSIONAL STABILITY; DISPERSION (WAVES); DOMES; LARGE EDDY SIMULATION; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; ROADS AND STREETS; ROOFS; SIZE DISTRIBUTION; STANDARDS; TUNNELS; TURBULENCE MODELS; TWO DIMENSIONAL; WALLS (STRUCTURAL PARTITIONS); WIND POWER; WIND TUNNELS;

(1 1 0) SURFACE; (I ,J) CONDITIONS; BUILDING HEIGHT; CONCENTRATION (COMPOSITION); CONCENTRATION FLUCTUATIONS; DISPERSION PROCESSING; ELSEVIER (CO); EMISSION RATES; FLOW REGIMES; IN ORDER; LARGE EDDY SIMULATION (LES) MODELLING; LARGE-EDDY SIMULATIONS (LES); LES MODELLING; LINE SOURCES; PASSIVE SCALARS; SCALAR CONCENTRATION; SCALAR FLUXES; SPATIAL DISTRIBUTION OF; STANDARD DEVIATION (STD); STREET CANYONS; STREET DESIGN; URBAN CANOPIES; WALL FUNCTIONS; WIND TUNNEL EXPERIMENTS; WIND-TUNNEL DATA;

STRUCTURAL DESIGN;

ATMOSPHERIC POLLUTION; DISPERSION; EMISSION; HEAT TRANSFER; LARGE EDDY SIMULATION; SPATIAL DISTRIBUTION; SPATIAL VARIATION; STREET CANYON; TEMPORAL VARIATION;

AIR POLLUTANT; AIR POLLUTION; AIR QUALITY; ARTICLE; ATMOSPHERIC DISPERSION; COMPUTATIONAL FLUID DYNAMICS; EXHAUST GAS; HEAT TRANSFER; PRIORITY JOURNAL; WIND;

EID: 46749158636     PISSN: 13522310     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.atmosenv.2008.03.040     Document Type: Article

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