Influence of avenue-trees on air quality at the urban neighborhood scale. Part I: Quality assurance studies and turbulent Schmidt number analysis for RANS CFD simulations

Environmental Pollution

Volumn 196, Issue 1, 2015, Pages 214-223

  Gromke, Christof ^a,b   Blocken, Bert ^a,c  

^a EINDHOVEN UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Netherlands)

^b KARLSRUHE INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY OF LEUVEN   (Belgium)

Author keywords

Built environment; CFD validation; Pollutant dispersion; Turbulent Schmidt number; Vegetation

Indexed keywords

AIR QUALITY; COMPUTER INTEGRATED MANUFACTURING; FORESTRY; POLLUTION; QUALITY ASSURANCE; TURBULENCE MODELS; VEGETATION;

BUILT ENVIRONMENT; CFD VALIDATIONS; POLLUTANT DISPERSIONS; QUALITY ASSESSMENT; TRAFFIC POLLUTANTS; TURBULENT SCHMIDT NUMBER; URBAN NEIGHBORHOOD; VEGETATION MODEL;

COMPUTATIONAL FLUID DYNAMICS;

AIR QUALITY; COMPUTATIONAL FLUID DYNAMICS; MODEL VALIDATION; NEIGHBORHOOD; TRAFFIC EMISSION; TURBULENT FLOW; URBAN POLLUTION; VEGETATION;

AIR QUALITY; ARTICLE; COMPUTATIONAL FLUID DYNAMICS; NEIGHBORHOOD; NONHUMAN; QUALITY CONTROL; SIMULATION; TREE; URBAN AREA; VEGETATION; AIR POLLUTANT; ANALYSIS; CITY; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; HYDRODYNAMICS; PROCEDURES; THEORETICAL MODEL; WIND;

AIR QUALITY; DISPERSIONS; FLUID DYNAMICS; QUALITY CONTROL;

AIR POLLUTANT;

AIR POLLUTANTS; CITIES; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; HYDRODYNAMICS; MODELS, THEORETICAL; TREES; WIND;

EID: 84930187795     PISSN: 02697491     EISSN: 18736424     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.envpol.2014.10.016     Document Type: Article

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