Flushing a finite volume of dense fluid from a square street canyon by a turbulent overflow

Atmospheric Environment

Volumn 60, Issue , 2012, Pages 392-402

  Baratian Ghorghi, Zahra ^a   Kaye, Nigel B ^a  

^a Clemson University   (United States)

Author keywords

Dense gas; Dispersion; Street canyon

Indexed keywords

AMBIENT FLUIDS; BUOYANT TRACER; DECAY RATE; DENSE FLUID; DENSE GAS; DENSE LAYER; DENSITY DIFFERENCE; DENSITY INTERFACE; EXPONENTIAL DECAY RATES; EXPONENTIAL DECAYS; FINITE VOLUME; FLUSHING PROCESS; PARAMETERIZED; RICHARDSON NUMBER; SHEAR LAYER; STRATIFIED SHEAR FLOW; STREET CANYON;

BUOYANCY; DECAY (ORGANIC); DISPERSION (WAVES); EXPERIMENTS; MIXED CONVECTION; MIXING;

SHEAR FLOW;

BUOYANCY; DENSITY; DISPERSION; EXPERIMENTAL STUDY; FLUSHING; GAS FLOW; PARAMETERIZATION; RICHARDSON NUMBER; SHEAR FLOW; STRATIFICATION; STREET CANYON; TRACER; TURBULENT FLOW;

ARTICLE; DENSITY; FLOW RATE; LIQUID; MATHEMATICAL ANALYSIS; POLLUTANT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RICHARDSON NUMBER; SHEAR FLOW; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; THICKNESS; TURBULENT FLOW;

EID: 84864128842     PISSN: 13522310     EISSN: 18732844     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.atmosenv.2012.06.077     Document Type: Article

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