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Large Scale Urban Simulations with FCT

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Flux-Corrected Transport

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Airborne contaminant transport in cities presents challenging new requirements for CFD. The unsteady flow physics is complicated by very complex geometry, multi-phase particle and droplet effects, radiation, latent, and sensible heating effects, and buoyancy effects. Turbulence is one of the most important of these phenomena and yet the overall problem is suRciently diRcult that the turbulence must be included eRciently with an absolute minimum of extra memory and computing time. This paper describes the Monotone Integrated Large Eddy Simulation (MILES) methodology used in NRL’s FAST3D-CT simulation model for urban contaminant transport (CT) (see [1] and references therein). We also describe important extensions of the underlying Flux-Corrected Transport (FCT) convection algorithms to further reduce numerical dissipation in narrow channels (streets).

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  1. LCP&FD, Naval Research Laboratory, Washington, DC, 20375-5344, USA

    Gopal Patnaik, Jay P. Boris & Fernando F. Grinstein

  2. Bucknell University, Lewisburg, PA, 17837, USA

    John P. Iselin

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  1. Department of Mathematics, University of Dortmund, LS III, Vogelpothsweg 87, 44227, Dortmund, Germany

    Dmitri Kuzmin  & Stefan Turek  & 

  2. School of Computational Sciences, George Mason University, Chain Bridge Road, 103 4260, Fairfax, Virginia, 22030-4444, USA

    Rainald Löhner

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Patnaik, G., Boris, J.P., Grinstein, F.F., Iselin, J.P. (2005). Large Scale Urban Simulations with FCT. In: Kuzmin, D., Löhner, R., Turek, S. (eds) Flux-Corrected Transport. Scientific Computation. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/3-540-27206-2_4

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