Wind tunnel investigations of pollution dispersion in a scale model of a large area of the city of geneva

WIT Transactions on Ecology and the Environment

Volumn 183, Issue , 2014, Pages 213-224

  Greco, D ^a   Pontelandolfo, P ^a   Nour, T ^a   Putzu, R ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF APPLIED SCIENCES WESTERN SWITZERLAND   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Air pollution aerodynamics; Air quality; Built environment; Pollutant dispersion; Wind tunnel measurements

Indexed keywords

AERODYNAMICS; AIR QUALITY; ATMOSPHERIC POLLUTION; DISPERSION; EXPERIMENTAL STUDY; POINT SOURCE POLLUTION; POLLUTANT TRANSPORT; URBAN AREA; WIND FIELD; WIND TUNNEL;

GENEVA [GENEVA (ADS)]; GENEVA [SWITZERLAND]; SWITZERLAND;

EID: 84930340374     PISSN: 17433541     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2495/AIR140181     Document Type: Article

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