[HTML][HTML] On the use of numerical modelling for near-field pollutant dispersion in urban environments− A review

M Lateb, RN Meroney, M Yataghene, H Fellouah… - Environmental …, 2016 - Elsevier
This article deals with the state-of-the-art of experimental and numerical studies carried out
regarding air pollutant dispersion in urban environments. Since the simulation of the …

Turbulent flow in plant canopies: historical perspective and overview

Y Brunet - Boundary-Layer Meteorology, 2020 - Springer
Studying the microclimate of plant canopies has long motivated scientists in various
research fields such as agronomy, ecology or silviculture, and almost a century has passed …

Evidence for Raupach et al.'s mixing-layer analogy in deep homogeneous urban-canopy flows

W Zhang, X Zhu, XIA Yang, M Wan - Journal of Fluid Mechanics, 2022 - cambridge.org
The mixing-layer analogy is due to Raupach, Finnigan & Brunet (Boundary-Layer Meteorol.,
vol. 25, 1996, pp. 351–382). In the analogy, the flow in the roughness sublayer of a …

Wildfires front dynamics: 3D structures and intensity at small and large scales

N Frangieh, G Accary, D Morvan, S Méradji… - Combustion and …, 2020 - Elsevier
The 3D structure of a fire front propagating through a homogeneous porous solid-fuel layer
was studied numerically at laboratory and field scales. At laboratory scale, wind-tunnel fires …

Large-eddy simulation of turbulence and particle dispersion inside the canopy roughness sublayer

Y Pan, M Chamecki, SA Isard - Journal of fluid mechanics, 2014 - cambridge.org
Modelling the dispersion of small particles such as fungal spores, pollens and small seeds
inside and above plant canopies is important for many applications. Transport of these …

Numerical simulation of grassland fires behavior using an implicit physical multiphase model

N Frangieh, D Morvan, S Meradji, G Accary… - Fire safety journal, 2018 - Elsevier
This study reports 3D numerical simulations of the ignition and the propagation of grassland
fires. The mathematical model is based on a multiphase formulation and on a …

Framework for submodel improvement in wildfire modeling

M El Houssami, A Lamorlette, D Morvan… - Combustion and …, 2018 - Elsevier
An experimental and numerical study was carried out to assess the performance of the
different submodels and parameters used to describe the burning dynamics of wildfires. A …

Dynamics of mixing flow with double-layer density stratification: Enstrophy and vortical structures

B Pei, FB Li, Z Luo, L Zhao, B Bai - Physics of Fluids, 2022 - pubs.aip.org
Previous studies on stratified shear layers involving two streams with different densities have
been conducted under the Boussinesq approximation, while the combined effect of stratified …

[HTML][HTML] Strong and weak, unsteady reconfiguration and its impact on turbulence structure within plant canopies

Y Pan, E Follett, M Chamecki, H Nepf - Physics of Fluids, 2014 - pubs.aip.org
Flexible terrestrial and aquatic plants bend in response to fluid motion and this
reconfiguration mechanism reduces drag forces, which protects against uprooting or …

[HTML][HTML] Coherent eddies transporting passive scalars through the plant canopy revealed by large-eddy simulations using the lattice Boltzmann method

T Watanabe, M Takagi, K Shimoyama… - Boundary-Layer …, 2021 - Springer
A double-distribution-function lattice Boltzmann model for large-eddy simulations of a
passive scalar field in a neutrally stratified turbulent flow is described. In simulations of the …