Flow and Pollutant Transport in Urban Street Canyons of Different Aspect Ratios with Ground Heating: Large-Eddy Simulation

Boundary-Layer Meteorology

Volumn 142, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 289-304

  Li, Xian Xiang ^a   Britter, Rex E ^b   Norford, Leslie K ^b   Koh, Tieh Yong ^c   Entekhabi, Dara ^d  

^a SINGAPORE MIT ALLIANCE FOR RESEARCH AND TECHNOLOGY   (Singapore)

^b MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^c NANYANG TECHNOLOGICAL UNIVERSITY   (Singapore)

^d Massachusetts Institute of Technology   (United States)

Author keywords

Aspect ratio; Ground heating; Large eddy simulation; Pollutant dispersion; Unstable stratification; Urban street canyon

Indexed keywords

COMBINED EFFECT; FLOW REGIMES; LARGE-EDDY SIMULATION MODELS; NORMALIZED TEMPERATURE; POLLUTANT DISPERSIONS; POLLUTANT TRANSPORT; SKIMMING FLOWS; STREET CANYON; STRONG-MIXING; URBAN CANYON FLOW; URBAN GEOMETRY; URBAN STREET CANYON; WAKE INTERFERENCES;

COMPUTER INTEGRATED MANUFACTURING; COMPUTER SIMULATION; HEATING; LARGE EDDY SIMULATION; POLLUTION; THERMAL STRATIFICATION; WIND;

ASPECT RATIO;

HEATING; LARGE EDDY SIMULATION; MODEL VALIDATION; POLLUTANT TRANSPORT; STRATIFICATION; STREET CANYON; TURBULENT BOUNDARY LAYER; TURBULENT FLOW; URBAN ATMOSPHERE;

EID: 84855345858     PISSN: 00068314     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10546-011-9670-9     Document Type: Article

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