Improved parameterisation for the numerical modelling of air pollution within an urban street canyon

Environmental Modelling and Software

Volumn 24, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 381-388

  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

Computational fluid dynamics; Model evaluation; Standard k turbulence model; Urban street canyon; Wind tunnel data

Indexed keywords

AERODYNAMICS; AIR POLLUTION; AIR QUALITY; COMPUTATIONAL FLUID DYNAMICS; CONCENTRATION (PROCESS); DISPERSION (WAVES); DYNAMICS; FLOW OF FLUIDS; FLUID DYNAMICS; GAS TURBINES; KINETIC ENERGY; NAVIER STOKES EQUATIONS; PARAMETERIZATION; POLLUTION; ROADS AND STREETS; STANDARDS; TUNNELS; TURBULENCE; WIND POWER; WIND TUNNELS;

COMMERCIAL SOFTWARES; COMPLEX GEOMETRIES; CONCENTRATION PATTERNS; DISPERSIVE PARAMETERS; ENVIRONMENTAL STUDIES; MECHANICAL PROCESSES; MODEL EVALUATION; MODEL PARAMETERS; MODEL PERFORMANCES; MODEL RESULTS; MODELLING TOOLS; NUMERICAL MODELLING; PARAMETERISATION; RANS MODELS; REYNOLDS; STREET CANYONS; TURBULENT KINETIC ENERGIES; URBAN AIR POLLUTIONS; URBAN CANOPIES; URBAN ENVIRONMENTS; URBAN STREET CANYON; URBAN STREET CANYONS; WIND FLOWS;

TURBULENCE MODELS;

ATMOSPHERIC POLLUTION; COMPUTATIONAL FLUID DYNAMICS; KINETIC ENERGY; NUMERICAL MODEL; PARAMETERIZATION; SOFTWARE; STREET CANYON; WIND TUNNEL;

EID: 56449114161     PISSN: 13648152     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.envsoft.2008.08.001     Document Type: Article

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