The effects of building representation and clustering in large-eddy simulations of flows in urban canopies

Boundary-Layer Meteorology

Volumn 132, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 415-436

  Bou Zeid, Elie ^a,b   Overney, Jan ^b   Rogers, Benedict D ^c   Parlange, Marc B ^b  

^a Princeton University   (United States)

^b EPFL   (Switzerland)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MANCHESTER   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Building representation; Global backscatter; Heterogeneous terrain; Surface roughness; Turbulent kinetic energy; Urban boundary layer; Urban canopy

Indexed keywords

GLOBAL BACKSCATTER; HETEROGENEOUS TERRAIN; TURBULENT KINETIC ENERGY; URBAN BOUNDARY LAYER; URBAN CANOPY;

ATMOSPHERIC MOVEMENTS; BACKSCATTERING; BOUNDARY LAYER FLOW; BOUNDARY LAYERS; BUILDINGS; COMPUTATIONAL FLUID DYNAMICS; ELECTRON ENERGY LOSS SPECTROSCOPY; ENERGY TRANSFER; KINETIC ENERGY; LARGE EDDY SIMULATION; SURFACE PROPERTIES; SURFACE ROUGHNESS;

ATMOSPHERIC THERMODYNAMICS;

BACKSCATTER; BUILDING; CANOPY; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; KINETIC ENERGY; LARGE EDDY SIMULATION; NUMERICAL MODEL; SURFACE ROUGHNESS; TERRAIN; TURBULENCE; TURBULENT BOUNDARY LAYER; URBAN AREA; WIND DIRECTION;

EID: 69049088684     PISSN: 00068314     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10546-009-9410-6     Document Type: Article

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