Wind-tunnel flow and pollutant exchange between a street canyon and intersections
BenchmarkLab
1:400 wind-tunnel model with uniform and non-uniform roof heights at 90° and 45° wind: LDA velocities and fast-FID concentrations quantifying pollutant exchange through canyon tops and lateral openings, packaged as a CFD validation case.
ERCOFTAC Knowledge Base licence (reuse with attribution)
How to cite
Nosek, Š. (2017). Wind-tunnel flow and pollutant exchange between a street canyon and intersections [Data set]. https://kbwiki.ercoftac.org/w/index.php/EXP_1-2
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