Systematic influence of different building spacing, height and layout on mean wind and turbulent characteristics within and over urban building arrays

Wind and Structures, An International Journal

Volumn 11, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 275-289

  Jiang, Dehai ^a   Jiang, Weimei ^a   Liu, Hongnian ^a   Sun, Jianning ^a  

^a NANJING UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Large eddy simulation; Turbulent flow characteristics; Urban building arrays; Urban meteorology

Indexed keywords

FLOW PATTERNS; KINETIC ENERGY; KINETICS; LARGE EDDY SIMULATION; TALL BUILDINGS; VELOCITY; VORTEX FLOW; WAKES; WIND;

DIMENSIONLESS PARAMETERS; FLOW CHARAC-TERISTICS; POSITIVE CORRELATIONS; TURBULENCE KINETIC ENERGY; TURBULENT CHARACTERISTICS; URBAN BUILDINGS; URBAN METEOROLOGY; ZERO-PLANE DISPLACEMENT;

BUILDINGS;

EID: 67649553742     PISSN: 12266116     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.12989/was.2008.11.4.275     Document Type: Article

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