Drag coefficient of emergent flexible vegetation in steady nonuniform flow

Y Zhang, P Wang, J Cheng, WJ Wang… - Water Resources …, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
Flexible vegetation plays key roles in the natural channel and riparian ecology. This paper
investigates the drag coefficient Cdf of an emergent flexible vegetation array in a steady …

Influence of street trees on turbulent fluctuations and transport processes in an urban canyon: a wind tunnel study

AV Del Ponte, S Fellini, M Marro… - Boundary-Layer …, 2024 - Springer
The presence of vegetation within urban canyons leads to non-trivial patterns of the
concentration of airborne pollutants, as a result of the complex structure of the velocity field …

Drag coefficient of submerged flexible vegetation patches in gravel bed rivers

K Nosrati, H Afzalimehr, J Sui - Water, 2022 - mdpi.com
Vegetation patches and strips either along riverbanks or in channel beds are essential for
the protection of erosion and sedimentation processes. In the present study, the drag …

The atmospheric boundary layer over urban-like terrain: influence of the plan density on roughness sublayer dynamics

L Perret, J Basley, R Mathis, T Piquet - Boundary-Layer Meteorology, 2019 - Springer
We investigate the effect of the packing density of cubical roughness elements on the
characteristics of both the roughness sublayer and the overlying turbulent boundary layer, in …

Stability influences on interscale transport of turbulent kinetic energy and Reynolds shear stress in atmospheric boundary layers interacting with a tall vegetation …

L Perret, EG Patton - Journal of Fluid Mechanics, 2021 - cambridge.org
High-resolution data from the large-eddy simulation of the atmospheric boundary layer
(ABL) over a vegetation canopy are used to investigate the interaction between the most …

Spectral proper orthogonal decomposition analysis of turbulent flow in a two-dimensional street canyon and its role in pollutant removal

B Zhang, R Ooka, H Kikumoto - Boundary-Layer Meteorology, 2022 - Springer
Spectral proper orthogonal decomposition (SPOD) is applied as a post-processing
technique to elucidate the relationship between turbulent motion and pollutant removal in a …

Numerical investigation of solar impacts on canyon vortices and its dynamical generation mechanism

S Liu, X Yang, H Yang, P Gao, J Hang, Q Wang - Urban Climate, 2021 - Elsevier
With the booming concerns over urban heat island phenomenon, impacts of solar radiation
on flow and temperature in street canyons have been revealed by some experimental and …

Spatiotemporal spectral analysis of turbulent structures and pollutant removal in two-dimensional street canyon

B Zhang, R Ooka, H Kikumoto - Boundary-Layer Meteorology, 2022 - Springer
This study expands the study conducted by Zhang et al.(Boundary-Layer Meteorol, 2022,
Vol. 183, 97–123) to elucidate turbulent structures within an ideal two-dimensional street …

Identification of very large scale structures in the boundary layer over large roughness elements

L Perret, F Kerhervé - Experiments in Fluids, 2019 - Springer
The dynamics of a turbulent boundary layer developing over a cube array is investigated
based on stereoscopic PIV measurements performed in a boundary layer wind tunnel. The …

Effect of morphology and an upstream tall building on the mean turbulence statistics of a street canyon flow

H Du, E Savory, L Perret - Building and Environment, 2023 - Elsevier
The effects on turbulent street canyon flow of the morphological model and the existence of
an upstream tall building are investigated in a wind tunnel, using Stereoscopic Particle …