Realistic solar heating in urban areas: Air exchange and street-canyon ventilation

Building and Environment

Volumn 95, Issue , 2016, Pages 75-93

  Nazarian, N ^a   Kleissl, J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Computational fluid dynamics; Convective heat transfer coefficients; Street air exchange; Urban heat transfer

Indexed keywords

AIR; COMPUTATIONAL FLUID DYNAMICS; FLOW OF FLUIDS; HEAT TRANSFER; HEAT TRANSFER COEFFICIENTS; HEATING; LARGE EDDY SIMULATION; ROOFS; VORTEX FLOW; WALLS (STRUCTURAL PARTITIONS);

AIR EXCHANGES; CONVECTIVE HEAT TRANSFER COEFFICIENT; CONVECTIVE HEAT TRANSFER COEFFICIENTS; FLUID FLOW AND HEAT TRANSFERS; HORIZONTAL TEMPERATURE GRADIENT; TURBULENCE STATISTICS; URBAN HEAT TRANSFERS; VERTICAL STRATIFICATION;

HEAT CONVECTION;

COMPUTATIONAL FLUID DYNAMICS; CONVECTION; GAS EXCHANGE; HEAT ISLAND; HEAT TRANSFER; LARGE EDDY SIMULATION; SOLAR POWER; STREET CANYON; VENTILATION;

EID: 84941915375     PISSN: 03601323     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.buildenv.2015.08.021     Document Type: Article

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