The impact of traffic-flow patterns on air quality in urban street canyons

Environmental Pollution

Volumn 208, Issue , 2016, Pages 161-169

  Thaker, Prashant ^a   Gokhale, Sharad ^a  

^a INDIAN INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY GUWAHATI   (India)

Author keywords

CFD; Public health; Street canyon; Traffic flow; Urban air quality; Urban system; Vehicle turbulence; Wellbeing

Indexed keywords

AIR QUALITY; COMPUTER INTEGRATED MANUFACTURING; FLOW PATTERNS; HEALTH; HEALTH RISKS; PUBLIC HEALTH; TURBULENCE; VEHICLES; WIND;

STREET CANYON; TRAFFIC FLOW; URBAN AIR QUALITY; URBAN SYSTEMS; WELLBEING;

COMPUTATIONAL FLUID DYNAMICS;

AIR QUALITY; COMPUTATIONAL FLUID DYNAMICS; FLOW PATTERN; POLLUTANT TRANSPORT; PUBLIC HEALTH; STREET CANYON; TRAFFIC EMISSION; TURBULENCE; URBAN SYSTEM;

AIR QUALITY; HUMAN; PEDESTRIAN; POLLUTANT; PUBLIC HEALTH; AIR POLLUTANT; AIR POLLUTION; ANALYSIS; CITY; ENVIRONMENTAL HEALTH; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; EXHAUST GAS; THEORETICAL MODEL; TRAFFIC AND TRANSPORT; WIND;

AIR POLLUTANT; EXHAUST GAS;

AIR POLLUTANTS; AIR POLLUTION; CITIES; ENVIRONMENTAL HEALTH; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; HUMANS; MODELS, THEORETICAL; TRANSPORTATION; VEHICLE EMISSIONS; WIND;

EID: 84958841347     PISSN: 02697491     EISSN: 18736424     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.envpol.2015.09.004     Document Type: Article

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