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Computational analysis of pollutant dispersion in urban street canyons with tree planting influenced by building roof shapes

  • Bouarbi, Lakhdar (Laboratoire de mecanique appliquee, Faculte de genie mecanique, Universite des sciences et de la technologie d'Oran - Mohamed-Boudiaf) ;
  • Abed, Bouabdellah (Laboratoire de mecanique appliquee, Faculte de genie mecanique, Universite des sciences et de la technologie d'Oran - Mohamed-Boudiaf) ;
  • Bouzit, Mohamed (Laboratoire de mecanique appliquee, Faculte de genie mecanique, Universite des sciences et de la technologie d'Oran - Mohamed-Boudiaf)
  • Received : 2015.11.27
  • Accepted : 2016.09.12
  • Published : 2016.12.25
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Abstract

The objective of this study is to investigate numerically the effect of building roof shaps on wind flow and pollutant dispersion in a street canyon with one row of trees of pore volume, $P_{vol}=96%$. A three-dimensional computational fluid dynamics (CFD) model is used to evaluate air flow and pollutant dispersion within an urban street canyon using Reynolds-averaged Navier-Stokes (RANS) equations and the Explicit Algebraic Reynolds Stress Models (EARSM) based on k-${\varepsilon}$ turbulence model to close the equation system. The numerical model is performed with ANSYS-CFX code. Vehicle emissions were simulated as double line sources along the street. The numerical model was validated by the wind tunnel experiment results. Having established this, the wind flow and pollutant dispersion in urban street canyons (with six roof shapes buildings) are simulated. The numerical simulation results agree reasonably with the wind tunnel data. The results obtained in this work, indicate that the flow in 3D domain is more complicated; this complexity is increased with the presence of trees and variability of the roof shapes. The results also indicated that the largest pollutant concentration level for two walls (leeward and windward wall) is observed with the upwind wedge-shaped roof. But the smallest pollutant concentration level is observed with the dome roof-shaped.

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