Buoyant flows in street canyons: Validation of CFD simulations with wind tunnel measurements

Building and Environment

Volumn 72, Issue , 2014, Pages 63-74

  Allegrini, Jonas ^a,b   Dorer, Viktor ^a   Carmeliet, Jan ^a,b  

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

^b ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Buoyancy; CFD; RANS; Street canyon; Validation; Wind tunnel

Indexed keywords

MEASUREMENT TECHNIQUES; PARTICLE IMAGE VELOCIMETRIES; RANS; REYNOLDS-AVERAGED NAVIER-STOKES; STREET CANYON; TURBULENT KINETIC ENERGY; VALIDATION; WIND TUNNEL MEASUREMENTS;

BUOYANCY; COMPUTER INTEGRATED MANUFACTURING; FLOW FIELDS; FLOW STRUCTURE; KINETICS; NAVIER STOKES EQUATIONS; PHOTOLITHOGRAPHY; SHEAR FLOW; SUN; WALLS (STRUCTURAL PARTITIONS); WIND TUNNELS;

COMPUTATIONAL FLUID DYNAMICS;

BUOYANCY; COMPUTATIONAL FLUID DYNAMICS; FLOW STRUCTURE; NAVIER-STOKES EQUATIONS; NUMERICAL MODEL; STREET CANYON; WIND TUNNEL;

EID: 84888046006     PISSN: 03601323     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.buildenv.2013.10.021     Document Type: Article

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