Near-field pollutant dispersion in the built environment by CFD and wind tunnel simulations

Journal of Wind Engineering and Industrial Aerodynamics

Volumn 99, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 330-339

  Chavez, Mauricio ^a   Hajra, Bodhisatta ^a   Stathopoulos, Ted ^a   Bahloul, Ali ^b  

^a Gina Cody School of Engineering and Computer Science   (Canada)

^b INSTITUT DE RECHERCHE ROBERT SAUVÉ EN SANTÉ ET EN SÉCURITÉ DU TRAVAIL   (Canada)

Author keywords

CFD; Dispersion; Multiple building; Pollution; Re ingestion; Schmidt number; Stack; Wind tunnel

Indexed keywords

COMPUTATIONAL FLUID DYNAMICS; DISPERSION (WAVES); POLLUTION; TRANSPORT PROPERTIES; WIND TUNNELS;

MULTIPLE BUILDINGS; POLLUTANT DISPERSIONS; POLLUTANT TRANSPORT; SCHMIDT NUMBERS; STACK; TURBULENT SCHMIDT NUMBER; WIND TUNNEL EXPERIMENT; WIND-TUNNEL SIMULATION;

BUILDINGS;

EID: 79954987178     PISSN: 01676105     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jweia.2011.01.003     Document Type: Article

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