Wind conditions and ventilation in high-rise long street models

Building and Environment

Volumn 45, Issue 6, 2010, Pages 1353-1365

  Hang, Jian ^a   Li, Yuguo ^a   Sandberg, Mats ^b   Claesson, Leif ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG   (Hong Kong)

^b ROYAL INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Air change rate (ACH); Flow rate; High rise long street; Numerical simulation; Turbulent exchange; Wind tunnel

Indexed keywords

ACCELERATING PROCESS; AIR CHANGE RATE (ACH); AIR CHANGE RATES; AIR EXCHANGES; CITY SCALE; CONSTANT FLOW; DOWNWARD FLOW; EXCHANGE RATES; FREE FLOW; HIGH-RISE LONG STREET; HORIZONTAL FLOWS; MEAN FLOW; NUMERICAL SIMULATION; TURBULENT FLUCTUATION; VERTICAL VELOCITY; WIND CONDITIONS;

AERODYNAMICS; BUOYANCY; COMPUTER SIMULATION; HYDRAULICS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; ROOFS; VENTILATION; WIND TUNNELS;

ROADS AND STREETS;

COMPUTER SIMULATION; EXPERIMENTAL STUDY; FLOW VELOCITY; FREE SURFACE FLOW; HEIGHT; MULTISTOREY BUILDING; NUMERICAL MODEL; TURBULENCE; TURBULENT FLOW; VENTILATION; WIND TUNNEL;

EID: 75949084439     PISSN: 03601323     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.buildenv.2009.11.019     Document Type: Article

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