Numerical study on the impact of ground heating and ambient wind speed on flow fields in street canyons

Advances in Atmospheric Sciences

Volumn 29, Issue 6, 2012, Pages 1227-1237

  Li, Lei ^a   Yang, Lin ^a   Zhang, Li Jie ^a   Jiang, Yin ^a  

^a Meteorological Bureau of Shenzhen Municipality   (China)

Author keywords

ambient wind; computational fluid dynamics (CFD); ground heating intensity; street canyon; thermal effect

Indexed keywords

EID: 84867780403     PISSN: 02561530     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00376-012-1066-3     Document Type: Article

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