Wind-tunnel flow and dispersion over an idealised street network (DIPLOS)
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Wind-tunnel measurements of flow and dispersion over an idealised urban street system, from the DIPLOS project. Useful for validating LES and DNS of urban dispersion.
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University of Reading. (2016). DIPLOS: Wind tunnel experiments to produce high quality datasets of dispersion processes [Data set]. https://www.urbanfluidmechanics.org/data-portal/diplos-wind-tunnel-experiments-to-produce-high-quality-datasets-of-dis/
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