An Improved Three-Dimensional Simulation of the Diurnally Varying Street-Canyon Flow

Boundary-Layer Meteorology

Volumn 153, Issue 2, 2014, Pages 251-276

  Yaghoobian, Neda ^a,b   Kleissl, Jan ^a   Paw U, Kyaw Tha ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Diurnal Cycle; Heterogeneous thermal forcing; Large eddy simulation; Urban canyon

Indexed keywords

AIR; ASPECT RATIO; ATMOSPHERIC TEMPERATURE; BOUNDARY CONDITIONS; FLOW PATTERNS; HEAT FLUX; KINETIC ENERGY; KINETICS; LARGE EDDY SIMULATION; VORTEX FLOW; COMPUTER INTEGRATED MANUFACTURING; URBAN TRANSPORTATION;

DIURNAL CYCLE; GROUND SURFACE TEMPERATURE; THERMAL BOUNDARY CONDITIONS; THERMAL FORCING; THREE DIMENSIONAL SIMULATIONS; TURBULENT KINETIC ENERGY; TURBULENT VELOCITY FLUCTUATIONS; URBAN CANYONS; LARGE-EDDY SIMULATION MODELS;

URBAN TRANSPORTATION; COMPUTER SIMULATION;

AIR TEMPERATURE; BOUNDARY CONDITION; BOUNDARY LAYER; DIURNAL VARIATION; FLUID FLOW; HEAT FLUX; HEAT TRANSFER; LARGE EDDY SIMULATION; MASS TRANSPORT; NUMERICAL MODEL; STREET CANYON;

EID: 84919392510     PISSN: 00068314     EISSN: 15731472     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10546-014-9940-4     Document Type: Article

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