Quantitative ventilation assessments of idealized urban canopy layers with various urban layouts and the same building packing density

Building and Environment

Volumn 79, Issue , 2014, Pages 152-167

  Lin, Man ^a   Hang, Jian ^a   Li, Yuguo ^b   Luo, Zhiwen ^c   Sandberg, Mats ^d  

^a SUN YAT SEN UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG   (Hong Kong)

^c UNIVERSITY OF READING   (United Kingdom)

^d UNIVERSITY OF GÄVLE   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Air change rate per hour (ACH); Computational fluid dynamics (CFD); Purging flow rate (PFR); Urban canopy layer (UCL) ventilation

Indexed keywords

AIR; COMPUTATIONAL FLUID DYNAMICS; TURBULENCE; WIND TUNNELS;

AIR CHANGE RATES; ATMOSPHERIC CONDITIONS; BUILDING HEIGHT VARIATIONS; DEVELOPED REGIONS; STANDARD DEVIATION; STANDARD K EPSILONS; URBAN CANOPY LAYERS; VENTILATION EFFICIENCY;

VENTILATION;

AIRFLOW; BUILDING; COMPUTATIONAL FLUID DYNAMICS; MATHEMATICAL ANALYSIS; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; TURBULENCE; TURBULENT FLOW; URBAN AREA; VENTILATION; WIND DIRECTION; WIND TUNNEL; WIND VELOCITY;

EID: 84901618531     PISSN: 03601323     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.buildenv.2014.05.008     Document Type: Article

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