Investigation of multi-level wind flow characteristics and pedestrian comfort in a tropical city

Urban Climate

Volumn 24, Issue , 2018, Pages 185-204

  Dhunny, A Z ^a   Samkhaniani, N ^b   Lollchund, M R ^a   Rughooputh, S D D V ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MAURITIUS   (Mauritius)

^b TARBIAT MODARES UNIVERSITY   (Iran)

Author keywords

OpenFOAM; Pedestrian comfort map; Sensitivity analysis; Tropical city

Indexed keywords

EID: 85044116340     PISSN: 22120955     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.uclim.2018.03.002     Document Type: Article

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