A simplified mathematical model for urban microclimate simulation

Building and Environment

Volumn 46, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 253-265

  Yao, Runming ^a,c   Luo, Qing ^b,c   Li, Baizhan ^b,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF READING   (United Kingdom)

^b BEIJING UNIVERSITY OF POSTS AND TELECOMMUNICATIONS   (China)

^c CHONGQING UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Coupled thermal and airflow; DEM (Digital Elevation Model); Nodal network; Solar radiation; Urban Microclimate simulation (UMsim)

Indexed keywords

AIRFLOW MODEL; CHONGQING UNIVERSITY; COUPLED THERMAL AND AIRFLOW; DIFFUSE RADIATION; DIGITAL ELEVATION MODEL; DIRECT SOLAR RADIATION; EARLY DESIGN STAGES; EXPERIMENTAL STUDIES; EXTERIOR WALLS; LONG-WAVE RADIATION; MATLAB PLATFORM; NODAL NETWORK; NODAL NETWORK MODEL; ROBUST DATUM; SIMPLIFIED MATHEMATICAL MODEL; SURFACE TEMPERATURES; URBAN DESIGN; URBAN ENVIRONMENTS; URBAN MICROCLIMATE; URBAN PLANNERS; URBAN SURFACES;

DESIGN; DIGITAL INSTRUMENTS; FORESTRY; GEOMORPHOLOGY; HEAT CONVECTION; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; SOLAR RADIATION; SUN; SURVEYING;

COMPUTER SIMULATION;

AIRFLOW; DIGITAL ELEVATION MODEL; MICROCLIMATE; NUMERICAL MODEL; SIMULATION; SOLAR RADIATION; SURFACE TEMPERATURE; URBAN CLIMATE; URBAN DESIGN;

EID: 77956230206     PISSN: 03601323     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.buildenv.2010.07.019     Document Type: Article

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