The COST 732 Best Practice Guideline for CFD simulation of flows in the urban environment: A summary

International Journal of Environment and Pollution

Volumn 44, Issue 1-4, 2011, Pages 419-427

  Franke, Jörg ^a   Hellsten, Antti ^b   Schlünzen, K Heinke ^c   Carissimo, Bertrand ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SIEGEN   (Germany)

^b FINNISH METEOROLOGICAL INSTITUTE   (Finland)

^c UNIVERSITY OF HAMBURG   (Germany)

^d UNIVERSITÉ CATHOLIQUE DE L'OUEST   (France)

Author keywords

Best practice guideline; BPG; CFD; Meteorology model; Micro scale; Obstacle accommodating model; RANS; Urban flow; Validation

Indexed keywords

QUALITY ASSURANCE;

BEST PRACTICE GUIDELINES; MICRO-SCALE; RANS; URBAN FLOW; VALIDATION;

COMPUTATIONAL FLUID DYNAMICS;

ATMOSPHERIC MODELING; COMPUTATIONAL FLUID DYNAMICS; FLOW MODELING; GUIDELINE; MODEL VALIDATION; URBAN ATMOSPHERE;

AIR QUALITY CONTROL; ARTICLE; COMPUTATIONAL FLUID DYNAMICS; FLOW; METEOROLOGY; POLLUTION TRANSPORT; SIMULATION; URBAN AREA;

EID: 79751514182     PISSN: 09574352     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1504/IJEP.2011.038443     Document Type: Article

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