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urbanChemFoam: reactive flow solver for urban street canyons, with test cases

Simulation

Source and test cases of urbanChemFoam, a weakly compressible reactive OpenFOAM solver for urban street canyons.

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Zenodo DOI 10.5281/zenodo.4384731
Licence
Open (other) Open licence; see the repository for the exact terms.
Size
108 kB

How to cite

Chan, E., & Butler, T. (2020). GMD-2020-432 urbanChemFoam v. 1.0 source and test cases [Computer software]. Zenodo. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.4384731

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Details

Resource
Software & tools, Case setup
Method
LES
Geometry
Street canyon
Topic
Dispersion & air quality
Quantities
Concentration
Codes / models
OpenFOAM, urbanChemFoam
Year
2020
Creators
E.C. Chan; T.M. Butler
Institution
IASS Potsdam

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