Large-Eddy Simulation of Flow and Pollutant Transport in Urban Street Canyons with Ground Heating

Boundary-Layer Meteorology

Volumn 137, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 187-204

  Li, Xian Xiang ^a   Britter, Rex E ^b   Koh, Tieh Yong ^c   Norford, Leslie K ^b   Liu, Chun Ho ^d   Entekhabi, Dara ^e   Leung, Dennis Y C ^d  

^a SINGAPORE MIT ALLIANCE FOR RESEARCH AND TECHNOLOGY   (Singapore)

^b MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^c NANYANG TECHNOLOGICAL UNIVERSITY   (Singapore)

^d UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG   (Hong Kong)

^e Massachusetts Institute of Technology Cambridge   (United States)

Author keywords

Ground heating; Large eddy simulation; Pollutant dispersion; Unstable stratification; Urban street canyon

Indexed keywords

BOUSSINESQ APPROXIMATIONS; EXPERIMENTAL DATA; FREE STREAM; FRESH AIR; GROUND HEATING; HIGHER TEMPERATURES; MEAN FLOW; ONE-EQUATION; POLLUTANT DISPERSIONS; POLLUTANT FLUXES; POLLUTANT REMOVAL; POLLUTANT TRANSPORT; RICHARDSON NUMBER; STREET CANYON; SUB-GRID SCALE MODELS; SUBGRID SCALE; THERMAL BUOYANCY FORCE; TRANSPORT EQUATION; TURBULENT KINETIC ENERGY; UNSTABLE STRATIFICATION; URBAN STREET CANYON;

ASPECT RATIO; ATMOSPHERIC BOUNDARY LAYER; DISPERSIONS; FLOW SIMULATION; HEATING; KINETIC ENERGY; LARGE EDDY SIMULATION; NAVIER STOKES EQUATIONS; POLLUTION; ROADS AND STREETS; ROOFS; THERMAL STRATIFICATION; TURBULENCE;

COMPUTER INTEGRATED MANUFACTURING;

ATMOSPHERIC MODELING; BOUSSINESQ EQUATION; HEATING; KINETIC ENERGY; LARGE EDDY SIMULATION; NAVIER-STOKES EQUATIONS; POLLUTANT REMOVAL; POLLUTANT TRANSPORT; RICHARDSON NUMBER; STRATIFIED FLOW; STREET CANYON; TURBULENT BOUNDARY LAYER; URBAN ATMOSPHERE; WIND TUNNEL;

EID: 77957955879     PISSN: 00068314     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10546-010-9534-8     Document Type: Article

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