Physical modeling of flow field inside urban street canyons

Journal of Applied Meteorology and Climatology

Volumn 47, Issue 7, 2008, Pages 2058-2067

  Li, Xian Xiang ^a   Leung, Dennis Y C ^a   Liu, Chun Ho ^a   Lam, K M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG   (Hong Kong)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ASPECT RATIO; COMPUTER INTEGRATED MANUFACTURING; FLOW OF FLUIDS; FLOW PATTERNS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; MODELS; PRESSURE DROP;

COMPLICATED FLOWS; DOPPLER; FLOW CHARACTERISTICS; FLOW DIRECTIONS; FLUCTUATING VELOCITIES; MEASUREMENT RESULTS; NUMERICAL MODELING; NUMERICAL MODELS; PHYSICAL MODELING; STREET CANYONS; TURBULENT INTENSITIES; URBAN STREET CANYONS; VELOCITY FIELDS; WAKE INTERFERENCE FLOWS; WATER CHANNELS;

ROADS AND STREETS;

ANEMOMETER; FLOW FIELD; FLOW MODELING; FLOW PATTERN; MODEL VALIDATION; STREET CANYON; WAKE;

EID: 54049101732     PISSN: 15588424     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/2007JAMC1815.1     Document Type: Article

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