Wind-Direction Effects on Urban-Type Flows

Boundary-Layer Meteorology

Volumn 142, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 265-287

  Claus, Jean ^a   Coceal, O ^b   Thomas, T Glyn ^a   Branford, S ^b   Belcher, S E ^b   Castro, Ian P ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHAMPTON   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF READING   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Surface forces; Urban canopy; Wind direction

Indexed keywords

FINITE DOMAINS; FLOW DIRECTION; FORCING TERMS; GLOBAL PROPERTIES; LABORATORY EXPERIMENTS; LIFT FORCE; MEAN FLOW; NUMERICAL MODELLING; OBSTACLE ARRAY; ON FLOW; PRESSURE FORCE; REGULAR ARRAY; SURFACE FORCES; TYPICAL URBAN; URBAN CANOPIES; VISCOUS FORCES; WIND DIRECTION; WIND DIRECTIONS;

AIR POLLUTION CONTROL; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DRAG; REYNOLDS NUMBER;

SURFACE MORPHOLOGY;

CANOPY; LARGE EDDY SIMULATION; NUMERICAL MODEL; REYNOLDS NUMBER; TURBULENT BOUNDARY LAYER; URBAN ATMOSPHERE; WIND DIRECTION;

EID: 84855348725     PISSN: 00068314     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10546-011-9667-4     Document Type: Article

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