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CFD wind profiles for an inhomogeneous urban street wind scheme

Simulation

CFD vertical wind profile results, wind-profile scheme functions and validation against observations for inhomogeneous urban canopies. Useful for parameterising urban wind profiles.

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Zenodo DOI 10.5281/zenodo.7370129
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Chen, Y. (2022). The development and validation of an Inhomogeneous Wind Scheme for Urban Street [Data set]. Zenodo. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.7370129

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Details

Resource
Simulation output
Method
RANS
Geometry
Street canyon
Topic
Parameterisation
Quantities
Wind profile, Velocity
Year
2022
Creators
Chen, Yuanhao

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