The effect of canyon aspect ratio on flushing of dense pollutants from an isolated street canyon

Science of the Total Environment

Volumn 443, Issue , 2013, Pages 112-122

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

^a CLEMSON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Aspect ratio; Dense pollutant; Negative buoyancy; Street canyon

Indexed keywords

DENSE POLLUTANT; EXPERIMENTAL INVESTIGATIONS; FLOW REGIMES; GEOMETRIC CONFIGURATIONS; LARGE-SCALE VORTICES; POLLUTANT REMOVAL; QUANTITATIVE RESULT; RICHARDSON NUMBER; STREET CANYON; STRONG STRATIFICATION; VERTICAL MIXING;

ASPECT RATIO; MIXED CONVECTION; POLLUTION;

COMPUTER INTEGRATED MANUFACTURING;

BUOYANCY; POLLUTANT REMOVAL; RICHARDSON NUMBER; STREET CANYON; TURBULENT FLOW;

ARTICLE; CANYON ASPECT RATIO; ENVIRONMENTAL PARAMETERS; FLOW KINETICS; GEOMETRY; MATHEMATICAL MODEL; POLLUTION MONITORING; POLLUTION TRANSPORT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUALITATIVE ANALYSIS; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; URBAN AREA;

AIR POLLUTANTS;

EID: 84869876699     PISSN: 00489697     EISSN: 18791026     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2012.10.064     Document Type: Article

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