On the study of ventilation and pollutant removal over idealized two-dimensional urban street canyons

Building Simulation

Volumn 5, Issue 4, 2012, Pages 359-369

  Leung, Ka Kit ^a   Liu, Chun Ho ^a   Wong, Colman C C ^a   Lo, Johnny C Y ^a   Ng, George C T ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG   (Hong Kong)

Author keywords

computational fluid dynamics (CFD); pollutant removal indicator; scaling effects; street canyons; urban air quality; wind tunnel measurements

Indexed keywords

EID: 84865610596     PISSN: 19963599     EISSN: 19968744     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s12273-012-0085-4     Document Type: Article

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