Computational Fluid Dynamics for urban physics: Importance, scales, possibilities, limitations and ten tips and tricks towards accurate and reliable simulations

Building and Environment

Volumn 91, Issue , 2015, Pages 219-245

  Blocken, Bert ^a,b  

^a EINDHOVEN UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Netherlands)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LEUVEN   (Belgium)

Author keywords

Building physics; CFD; Computational Fluid Dynamics; Fluid mechanics; Urban environment; Urban physics

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE CHANGE; DYNAMICS; FLUID DYNAMICS; FLUID MECHANICS; NUMERICAL METHODS; URBAN PLANNING; URBAN TRANSPORTATION;

BEST PRACTICE GUIDELINES; BUILDING PHYSICS; FIELD MEASUREMENT; LABORATORY MEASUREMENTS; NUMERICAL SIMULATION METHOD; SCIENCE AND ENGINEERING; SPATIAL AND TEMPORAL SCALE; URBAN ENVIRONMENTS;

COMPUTATIONAL FLUID DYNAMICS;

FLUID DYNAMICS; NUMERICAL MODEL; PHYSICS; SPATIOTEMPORAL ANALYSIS; URBAN AREA; URBAN SOCIETY;

EID: 84930180900     PISSN: 03601323     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.buildenv.2015.02.015     Document Type: Article

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