Macroscopic simulations of turbulent flows through high-rise building arrays using a porous turbulence model

Building and Environment

Volumn 49, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 41-54

  Hang, Jian ^a,b   Li, Yuguo ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG   (Hong Kong)

^b GUANGZHOU UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Building array; High rise; Numerical simulation; Porous turbulence model; Spatially averaging

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; POROUS MATERIALS; TALL BUILDINGS; WIND TUNNELS;

BUILDING ARRAY; BUILDING HEIGHT VARIATIONS; COMPUTATIONAL REQUIREMENTS; HIGH RISE; HIGH-RISE BUILDING ARRAYS; MICROSCOPIC SIMULATION; SPATIALLY AVERAGING; TURBULENCE PREDICTION;

TURBULENCE MODELS;

AIRFLOW; ARRAY; COMPUTER SIMULATION; MULTISTOREY BUILDING; NUMERICAL MODEL; POROUS MEDIUM; SPATIAL ANALYSIS; TURBULENCE; TURBULENT FLOW; URBAN AREA; WIND TUNNEL; WIND VELOCITY;

EID: 80054068185     PISSN: 03601323     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.buildenv.2011.09.013     Document Type: Article

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