Modified Accuracy of RANS Modeling of Urban Pollutant Flow within Generic Building Clusters Using a High-Quality Full-Scale Dispersion Dataset

To improve the reliability of the computational fluid dynamics (CFD) models of wind-driven pollutant dispersion within urban settings, a re-calibration study is conducted to optimize the standard k−ε model. A modified optimization framework based on the genetic algorithm is adapted to alleviate the...

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Construction
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Optimization
Outdoor air quality
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Ventilation
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