Numerical investigation on the urban heat island in an entire city with an urban porous media model

Atmospheric Environment

Volumn 47, Issue , 2012, Pages 509-518

  Hu, Zhangbao ^a   Yu, Bingfeng ^a   Chen, Zhi ^b   Li, Tiantian ^a   Liu, Min ^a  

^a XI'AN JIAOTONG UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b XI'AN SHIYOU UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Anthropogenic heat; Porous media; Simulation; Urban heat island; Wind speed

Indexed keywords

ANTHROPOGENIC HEAT; CLEAR FLUID; COMPUTING CAPACITY; DECREASE RATE; FLOW AND HEAT TRANSFER; GROUND SURFACES; HEAT SOURCES; INTERFACE CONDITIONS; INTERNAL HEAT SOURCE; MICRO-SCALES; MITIGATION EFFECTS; NUMERICAL INVESTIGATIONS; NUMERICAL RESULTS; NUMERICAL STUDIES; SIMULATION; SINGLE DOMAINS; SPATIAL RESOLUTION; URBAN AREAS; URBAN CANOPIES; URBAN HEAT ISLAND; URBAN REGIONS; WIND SPEED;

HEAT FLUX; NUMERICAL METHODS; POROUS MATERIALS; RURAL AREAS; SPEED; THERMAL POLLUTION; WIND EFFECTS;

MATHEMATICAL MODELS;

AIRFLOW; BUILDING; HEAT FLUX; HEAT ISLAND; HEAT TRANSFER; NUMERICAL MODEL; POROSITY; POROUS MEDIUM; SPATIAL DISTRIBUTION; SPATIAL RESOLUTION; TURBULENCE; URBAN AREA; VOLUME; WIND VELOCITY;

AIR POLLUTANT; ANTHROPOGENIC HEAT; ARTICLE; BUILDING; ENERGY; HEAT; KINETICS; MATHEMATICAL MODEL; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TURBULENT FLOW; URBAN AREA; URBAN HEAT ISLAND; URBANIZATION; VELOCITY; WIND;

EID: 84155170684     PISSN: 13522310     EISSN: 18732844     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.atmosenv.2011.09.064     Document Type: Article

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