Quality assessment of Large-Eddy Simulation of wind flow around a high-rise building: Validation and solution verification

Computers and Fluids

Volumn 79, Issue , 2013, Pages 120-133

  Gousseau, P ^a   Blocken, B ^a   Van Heijst, G J F ^a  

^a EINDHOVEN UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Bluff body aerodynamics; Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD); Large Eddy Simulation (LES); Turbulence modeling; Urban wind flow; Validation and Verification (V V)

Indexed keywords

A1. LARGEEDDY SIMULATIONS (LES); BLUFF BODY AERODYNAMICS; FLOW CONFIGURATIONS; SOLUTION VERIFICATION; TURBULENT KINETIC ENERGY; URBAN WIND FLOWS; VALIDATION AND VERIFICATION; WIND TUNNEL EXPERIMENT;

ASPECT RATIO; COMPUTATIONAL FLUID DYNAMICS; KINETIC ENERGY; KINETICS; LARGE EDDY SIMULATION; TALL BUILDINGS; TURBULENCE; TURBULENCE MODELS; VORTEX FLOW;

UNCERTAINTY ANALYSIS;

EID: 84876718023     PISSN: 00457930     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.compfluid.2013.03.006     Document Type: Article

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