Performance assessment of Large Eddy Simulation (LES) for modeling dispersion in an urban street canyon with tree planting

Atmospheric Environment

Volumn 75, Issue , 2013, Pages 66-76

  Moonen, P ^a,b   Gromke, C ^c,d   Dorer, V ^a,b  

^a SWISS FEDERAL LABORATORIES FOR MATERIALS SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Switzerland)

^b ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^c KARLSRUHE INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Germany)

^d EINDHOVEN UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Computational fluid dynamics (CFD); Dispersion; Large eddy simulation (LES); Model performance; Statistical analysis; Validation metrics; Wind tunnel measurements

Indexed keywords

A1. LARGEEDDY SIMULATIONS (LES); ACCEPTANCE CRITERIA; MODEL PERFORMANCE; PERFORMANCE ASSESSMENT; POLLUTANT DISPERSIONS; STATISTICAL DATA ANALYSIS; VALIDATION METRICS; WIND TUNNEL MEASUREMENTS;

COMPUTATIONAL FLUID DYNAMICS; DISPERSION (WAVES); REFORESTATION; STATISTICAL METHODS;

LARGE EDDY SIMULATION;

ATMOSPHERIC POLLUTION; COMPUTATIONAL FLUID DYNAMICS; CONCENTRATION (COMPOSITION); DISPERSION; EDDY COVARIANCE; NUMERICAL MODEL; PERFORMANCE ASSESSMENT; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; TREE PLANTING; URBAN AREA; URBAN POLLUTION; WIND TUNNEL;

ARTICLE; ATMOSPHERIC DISPERSION; CALCULATION; FLOW; LARGE EDDY SIMULATION; MEASUREMENT; MODEL; POROSITY; PREDICTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RELIABILITY; SIMULATION; TREE CROWN; URBAN AREA; VALIDATION PROCESS;

EID: 84877822532     PISSN: 13522310     EISSN: 18732844     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.atmosenv.2013.04.016     Document Type: Article

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