CFD analysis of pollutant dispersion around buildings: Effect of cell geometry

Building and Environment

Volumn 44, Issue 8, 2009, Pages 1699-1706

  Hefny, Mohamed M ^a   Ooka, Ryozo ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

^b INSTITUTE OF INDUSTRIAL SCIENCE   (Japan)

Author keywords

Cell geometry; Numerical errors; Pollutant dispersion; Unstructured mesh

Indexed keywords

DISPERSION (WAVES); DISPERSIONS; ERRORS; FLOW SIMULATION; POLLUTION; UNCERTAINTY ANALYSIS;

CELL GEOMETRY; CFD ANALYSIS; COMPLEX GEOMETRIES; COMPUTATIONAL MESHES; COMPUTATIONAL SOLUTIONS; EXPERIMENTAL UNCERTAINTIES; FLOW PROBLEMS; GRID CONVERGENCE INDICES; GRID CONVERGENCES; HEXAHEDRAL ELEMENTS; HIGH-QUALITY SOLUTIONS; NUMERICAL DIFFUSIONS; NUMERICAL ERRORS; NUMERICAL SOLUTIONS; ORDER OF MAGNITUDES; POLLUTANT CONCENTRATIONS; POLLUTANT DISPERSION; QUANTITATIVE ASSESSMENTS; TETRAHEDRAL ELEMENTS; TRUNCATION ERRORS; UNSTRUCTURED MESH;

COMPUTATIONAL GEOMETRY;

ASSESSMENT METHOD; BUILDING; COMPUTATIONAL FLUID DYNAMICS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DIFFUSION; DISPERSION; ERROR ANALYSIS; INDOOR AIR; POLLUTANT TRANSPORT; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS;

EID: 61749096688     PISSN: 03601323     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.buildenv.2008.11.010     Document Type: Article

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