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

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...

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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.
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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.