Large-Scale Structures over a Single Street Canyon Immersed in an Urban-Type Boundary Layer

Boundary-Layer Meteorology

Volumn 148, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 111-131

  Perret, Laurent ^a   Savory, Eric ^b  

^a LABORATOIRE DE MÉCANIQUE DES FLUIDES   (France)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN ONTARIO   (Canada)

Author keywords

Atmospheric turbulence; Proper orthogonal decomposition; Shear layer dynamics; Street canyon; Wind tunnel

Indexed keywords

AVERAGING TECHNIQUE; LARGE-SCALE STRUCTURE; NONLINEAR INTERACTIONS; PARTICLE IMAGE VELOCIMETRY MEASUREMENT; PROPER ORTHOGONAL DECOMPOSITIONS; SHEAR LAYER; STREET CANYON; VORTICAL STRUCTURES;

ATMOSPHERIC BOUNDARY LAYER; ATMOSPHERIC TURBULENCE; PRINCIPAL COMPONENT ANALYSIS; VELOCITY; WIND TUNNELS;

SHEAR FLOW;

ATMOSPHERIC STRUCTURE; STREET CANYON; TURBULENT BOUNDARY LAYER; UNSTEADY FLOW; URBAN ATMOSPHERE; WIND TUNNEL;

EID: 84878947107     PISSN: 00068314     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10546-013-9808-z     Document Type: Article

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