LES analysis of the aerodynamic surface properties for turbulent flows over building arrays with various geometries

Journal of Applied Meteorology and Climatology

Volumn 50, Issue 8, 2011, Pages 1692-1712

  Nakayama, Hiromasa ^a   Takemi, Tetsuya ^b   Nagai, Haruyasu ^a  

^a JAPAN ATOMIC ENERGY AGENCY   (Japan)

^b KYOTO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Large eddy simulations; Turbulence

Indexed keywords

AERODYNAMIC PARAMETERS; AERODYNAMIC ROUGHNESS; AERODYNAMIC SURFACES; BUILDING ARRAY; BUILDING HEIGHT; BUILT-UP AREAS; CONVENTIONAL APPROACH; CONVENTIONAL METHODS; FRONTAL AREAS; IN-BUILDINGS; MORPHOLOGICAL ANALYSIS; MORPHOLOGICAL CHARACTERISTIC; ROUGHNESS DENSITY; ROUGHNESS ELEMENTS; ROUGHNESS LENGTH; STANDARD DEVIATION; STUDY SITES; SURFACE GEOMETRIES; TOTAL SURFACE AREA; URBAN AREAS; URBAN EFFECT; URBAN SURFACES; WEATHER FORECASTING MODEL;

AERODYNAMICS; BUILDINGS; GEOMETRY; LARGE EDDY SIMULATION; SURFACE PROPERTIES; SURFACE ROUGHNESS; TURBULENT FLOW; WEATHER FORECASTING;

AERODYNAMIC DRAG;

AERODYNAMICS; BUILDING; LARGE EDDY SIMULATION; SURFACE ROUGHNESS; TURBULENCE; TURBULENT BOUNDARY LAYER; TURBULENT FLOW; URBAN ATMOSPHERE; WEATHER FORECASTING;

EID: 80052413210     PISSN: 15588424     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/2011JAMC2567.1     Document Type: Article

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