The effect of building spacing on near-field temporal evolution of triple building plumes

摘要

Building plume is important for ventilation and pollutants dispersion along and above buildings in an urban canopy layer. This study fundamentally explores the merging process and temporal penetration of triple uniformly distributed starting building plumes, with a focus of the spacing effect on near-field flow dynamics. Instantaneous velocity and vorticity distributions, penetrating velocities, and stream-wise penetrated heights are quantitatively examined using 2-D particle image velocimetry (PIV) measurements at spacing ratios S/W (building spacing/building width) of 0.2, 0.5, and 1.0.