Spatial characteristics of roughness sublayer mean flow and turbulence over a realistic urban surface

MG Giometto, A Christen, C Meneveau, J Fang… - Boundary-layer …, 2016 - Springer
Single-point measurements from towers in cities cannot properly quantify the impact of all
terms in the turbulent kinetic energy (TKE) budget and are often not representative of …

A review of urban roughness sublayer turbulence

J Barlow, O Coceal - 2008 - centaur.reading.ac.uk
It is becoming increasingly important that we can understand and model flow processes in
urban areas. Applications such as weather forecasting, air quality and sustainable urban …

Dispersive fluxes within and over a real urban canopy: a large-eddy simulation study

E Akinlabi, B Maronga, MG Giometto, D Li - Boundary-Layer Meteorology, 2022 - Springer
Large-eddy simulations (LES) are conducted to study the transport of momentum and
passive scalar within and over a real urban canopy in the City of Boston, USA. This urban …

Urban climate under change [UC] 2-A national research programme for developing a building-resolving atmospheric model for entire city regions

D Scherer, F Antretter, S Bender… - … Zeitschrift 28 (2019 …, 2019 - repo.uni-hannover.de
Large cities and urban regions are confronted with rising pressure by environmental
pollution, impacts of climate change, as well as natural and health hazards. They are …

Quantifying inflow uncertainties for CFD simulations of the flow in downtown Oklahoma City

C García-Sánchez, DA Philips, C Gorlé - Building and environment, 2014 - Elsevier
Abstract Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD) methods are widely used to investigate wind
flow and dispersion in urban environments. Validation with field experiments that represent …

Sensitivity of turbulent flow around a 3-D building array to urban boundary-layer stability

G Duan, K Ngan - Journal of Wind Engineering and Industrial …, 2019 - Elsevier
The mean flow and turbulence within a regular building array are analysed for a wide range
of bulk Richardson numbers, Rb, using large-eddy simulation. Time-averaged streamlines in …

Flow and temperature dynamics in an urban canyon under a comprehensive set of wind directions, wind speeds, and thermal stability conditions

AA Aliabadi, M Moradi, D Clement, WD Lubitz… - Environmental Fluid …, 2019 - Springer
Atmospheric flow and temperature dynamics in the urban roughness sublayer exhibit
numerous complexities that cannot all be investigated using models or scaled-down …

Characterizing the impacts of turbulence closures on real hurricane forecasts: A comprehensive joint assessment of grid resolution, horizontal turbulence models, and …

O Romdhani, JA Zhang… - Journal of Advances in …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Hurricanes are highly complex geophysical flows that have caused billions of dollars in
damage in recent years. Despite the significance of these extreme weather events, the …

Improving measurement technology for the design of sustainable cities

ER Pardyjak, R Stoll - Measurement Science and Technology, 2017 - iopscience.iop.org
This review identifies and discusses measurement technology gaps that are currently
preventing major science leaps from being realized in the study of urban environmental …

[HTML][HTML] Flow and turbulence in an urban canyon

D Zajic, HJS Fernando, R Calhoun… - Journal of Applied …, 2011 - journals.ametsoc.org
Flow and Turbulence in an Urban Canyon in: Journal of Applied Meteorology and Climatology
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