Measurements and Computations of Flow in an Urban Street System
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- 作者：Ian P. Castro ; Zheng-Tong Xie ; V. Fuka ; Alan G. Robins…
- 关键词：Direct numerical simulation ; Large ; eddy simulation ; Urban environment ; Wind ; tunnel modelling
- 刊名：Boundary-Layer Meteorology
- 出版年：2017
- 出版时间：February 2017
- 年：2017
- 卷：162
- 期：2
- 页码：207-230
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- 刊物类别：Earth and Environmental Science
- 刊物主题：Atmospheric Sciences; Meteorology; Atmospheric Protection/Air Quality Control/Air Pollution;
- 出版者：Springer Netherlands
- ISSN：1573-1472
- 卷排序：162
文摘
We present results from laboratory and computational experiments on the turbulent flow over an array of rectangular blocks modelling a typical, asymmetric urban canopy at various orientations to the approach flow. The work forms part of a larger study on dispersion within such arrays (project DIPLOS) and concentrates on the nature of the mean flow and turbulence fields within the canopy region, recognising that unless the flow field is adequately represented in computational models there is no reason to expect realistic simulations of the nature of the dispersion of pollutants emitted within the canopy. Comparisons between the experimental data and those obtained from both large-eddy simulation (LES) and direct numerical simulation (DNS) are shown and it is concluded that careful use of LES can produce generally excellent agreement with laboratory and DNS results, lending further confidence in the use of LES for such situations. Various crucial issues are discussed and advice offered to both experimentalists and those seeking to compute canopy flows with turbulence resolving models.