Dispersion study in a street canyon with tree planting by means of wind tunnel and numerical investigations - Evaluation of CFD data with experimental data

Atmospheric Environment

Volumn 42, Issue 37, 2008, Pages 8640-8650

  Gromke, Christof ^a   Buccolieri, Riccardo ^b   Di Sabatino, Silvana ^b   Ruck, Bodo ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF KARLSRUHE   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SALENTO   (Italy)

Author keywords

CFD simulations; Pollutant dispersion; Street canyon; Tree planting; Turbulent Schmidt number; Wind tunnel measurements

Indexed keywords

AERODYNAMICS; AGRICULTURE; COMPUTER INTEGRATED MANUFACTURING; COMPUTER SIMULATION; CONCENTRATION (PROCESS); DISPERSION (WAVES); DOMES; EXPERIMENTS; FLOW OF FLUIDS; FORESTRY; FREE VOLUME; MIXED CONVECTION; REFORESTATION; REYNOLDS NUMBER; RIVER POLLUTION; ROADS AND STREETS; ROOFS; SCANDIUM; TREES (MATHEMATICS); TUNNELS; TURBULENCE; TURBULENCE MODELS; WIND TUNNELS;

CFD SIMULATIONS; POLLUTANT DISPERSION; STREET CANYON; TREE PLANTING; TURBULENT SCHMIDT NUMBER; WIND TUNNEL MEASUREMENTS;

STRUCTURAL DESIGN;

COMPUTATIONAL FLUID DYNAMICS; CONCENTRATION (COMPOSITION); DISPERSION; FLOW VELOCITY; NUMERICAL MODEL; POLLUTANT TRANSPORT; STREET CANYON; TRAFFIC EMISSION; WIND TUNNEL;

AIR QUALITY; ARTICLE; CONCENTRATION (PARAMETERS); DIFFUSION; DISPERSION; FLOW MEASUREMENT; FLOW RATE; POROSITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUALITATIVE ANALYSIS; SIMULATION; STRUCTURE ANALYSIS; TREE; URBAN AREA; WIND;

AERODYNAMICS; AGRICULTURE; CITIES; CONCENTRATION; DATA PROCESSING; INFORMATION RETRIEVAL; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; PLANTING; POROSITY; REFORESTATION; REYNOLDS NUMBER; TREES; VENTILATION; WIND;

EID: 54949150575     PISSN: 13522310     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.atmosenv.2008.08.019     Document Type: Article

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