City breathability in medium density urban-like geometries evaluated through the pollutant transport rate and the net escape velocity

Building and Environment

Volumn 94, Issue P1, 2015, Pages 166-182

  Hang, Jian ^a   Wang, Qun ^a   Chen, Xieyuan ^a   Sandberg, Mats ^b   Zhu, Wei ^a   Buccolieri, Riccardo ^c   Di Sabatino, Silvana ^d  

^a SUN YAT SEN UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GÄVLE   (Sweden)

^c UNIVERSITY OF SALENTO   (Italy)

^d UNIVERSITY OF BOLOGNA   (Italy)

Author keywords

Computational fluid dynamics; Contribution ratio; Net escape velocity; Pollutant transport rate; Urban canopy layer

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC TURBULENCE; COMPUTATIONAL FLUID DYNAMICS; DIFFUSION IN LIQUIDS; POLLUTION; TRANSPORT PROPERTIES; TURBULENCE MODELS; WALLS (STRUCTURAL PARTITIONS); WIND TUNNELS;

BUILDING HEIGHT VARIATIONS; COMPUTATIONAL FLUID DYNAMICS SIMULATIONS; CONTRIBUTION RATIOS; ESCAPE VELOCITIES; POLLUTANT TRANSPORT; STREET SCALE MODELS; TURBULENT DIFFUSION; URBAN CANOPY LAYERS;

URBAN TRANSPORTATION;

CANOPY; COMPUTATIONAL FLUID DYNAMICS; POLLUTANT TRANSPORT; TURBULENCE; URBAN AREA; URBAN MORPHOLOGY;

EID: 84983727401     PISSN: 03601323     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.buildenv.2015.08.002     Document Type: Article

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