Flow and Transport Processes with Complex Obstructions Applications to Cities, Vegetative Canopies, and Industry /

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: Gayev, Yevgeny A. (Editor), Hunt, Julian C.R (Editor)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Dordrecht : Springer Netherlands, 2007.
• Series: NATO Science Series, 236
• Subjects: Environment.; Atmospheric sciences.; Fluids.; Fluid mechanics.; Environmental sciences.; Air pollution.; Environmental Physics.; Fluid- and Aerodynamics.; Engineering Fluid Dynamics.; Atmospheric Sciences.; Atmospheric Protection/Air Quality Control/Air Pollution.

The NATO Advanced Study Institute “Flow and Transport Processes in Complex - structed Geometries: from cities and vegetative canopies to engineering problems” was held in Kyiv, Ukraine in the period of May 4 - 15, 2004. This book based on the papers presented there provides an overview of this new a...

Table of Contents:

• Variety of problems associated with Canopies, or EPRs
• Discrete and continuum models of flow and dispersion through canopies
• Easily Penetrable Roughnesses of different structures
• Observation and simulation of flow in vegetation canopies
• Turbulent flow in canopies on complex topography and the effects of stable stratification
• Transport in aquatic canopies
• Vorticity annihilation and inviscid blocking in multibody flows
• Fires in porous media: natural and urban canopies
• Urban air flow researches for air pollution, emergency preparedness and urban weather prediction.