On the heating environment in street canyon

Environmental Fluid Mechanics

Volumn 11, Issue 5, 2011, Pages 465-480

  Memon, Rizwan Ahmed ^a   Leung, D Y C ^b  

^a MEHRAN UNIVERSITY OF ENGINEERING AND TECHNOLOGY   (Pakistan)

^b UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG   (Hong Kong)

Author keywords

CFD; Heating; Street canyon; Surface temperature; Turbulence

Indexed keywords

AIR TEMPERATURE; COMPUTATIONAL FLUID DYNAMICS; NAVIER-STOKES EQUATIONS; REYNOLDS NUMBER; RICHARDSON NUMBER; STREET CANYON; SURFACE TEMPERATURE; TURBULENCE; WIND VELOCITY;

EID: 80052461559     PISSN: 15677419     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10652-010-9202-z     Document Type: Article

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