Flow simulations for simplified urban configurations with microscale distributions of surface thermal forcing

Urban Climate

Volumn 9, Issue , 2014, Pages 115-133

  Santiago, J L ^a   Krayenhoff, E S ^b   Martilli, A ^a  

^a CIEMAT   (Spain)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

Author keywords

Aligned array of cubes; Drag coefficient; Realistic surface heat fluxes; Reynolds averaged Navier Stokes (RANS) simulations; Urban canopy

Indexed keywords

EID: 85027928913     PISSN: 22120955     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.uclim.2014.07.008     Document Type: Article

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