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Main Title Influence of Upstream Wind Shear and Turbulence on the Wind Pattern and Pollutant Concentrations within Street Canyons: A Numerical Simulation Study.
Author Zhang, Y. Q. ; Huber, A. H. ;
CORP Author ManTech Environmental Technology, Inc., Research Triangle Park, NC.;Environmental Protection Agency, Research Triangle Park, NC. Atmospheric Research and Exposure Assessment Lab.
Publisher Mar 95
Year Published 1995
Report Number EPA-68-DO-0106; EPA/600/A-95/062;
Stock Number PB95-218822
Additional Subjects Wind shear ; Atmospheric turbulence ; Environmental transport ; Exhaust gases ; Urban areas ; Flow models ; Numerical simulation ; Reprints ; Atmospheric diffusion
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NTIS  PB95-218822 Some EPA libraries have a fiche copy filed under the call number shown. 07/26/2022
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Abstract
The study shows that the canyon geometry and the upstream boundary conditions have significant influences on the flow and concentration fields in the vicinity of urban street canyons. Pollutants emitted within a canyon will generally not be transported to the front of the upstream buildings. When there is more than one canyon in the downwind direction, the upstam flow conditions can be very critical to the flow and dispersion fields inside the first canyon, but they are not as important to the concentration fields inside the consecutive canyons. The dispersion fields in the vicinity of the first canyon are very similar to the corresponding cases, involving only one canyon and the same upstream boundary conditions. The fields in the vicinity of the following canyons are comparable to cases that have the same relative geometric configuration on two sides of the canyon but with the atmospheric shear and turbulence in the upstream flow.