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Measurements and computations of flow in an urban street system

Measurements and computations of flow in an urban street system
Measurements and computations of flow in an urban street system
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.
urban environment, wind tunnel modelling, large-eddy simulation, 22 direct numerical simulation
0006-8314
207-230
Castro, Ian
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Castro, Ian, Xie, Zhengtong, Fuka, Vladimir, Robins, Alan G., Hayden, Paul, Hertwig, Denise, Coceal, Omduth and Carpentieri, Matteo (2017) Measurements and computations of flow in an urban street system. Boundary-Layer Meteorology, 162 (2), 207-230. (doi:10.1007/s10546-016-0200-7).

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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.

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Accepted/In Press date: 17 March 2016
e-pub ahead of print date: 17 September 2016
Published date: February 2017
Keywords: urban environment, wind tunnel modelling, large-eddy simulation, 22 direct numerical simulation
Organisations: Aerodynamics & Flight Mechanics Group

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Local EPrints ID: 390199
URI: http://eprints.soton.ac.uk/id/eprint/390199
ISSN: 0006-8314
PURE UUID: 4e2f000f-9767-487e-9818-ba29f33e7d8e
ORCID for Zhengtong Xie: ORCID iD orcid.org/0000-0002-8119-7532

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Date deposited: 22 Mar 2016 09:37
Last modified: 15 Mar 2024 05:26

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Author: Ian Castro
Author: Zhengtong Xie ORCID iD
Author: Vladimir Fuka
Author: Alan G. Robins
Author: Paul Hayden
Author: Denise Hertwig
Author: Omduth Coceal
Author: Matteo Carpentieri

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