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The Regional Atmospheric Modeling System (RAMS) and the computational fluid dynamics (CFD) codes known as FLUENT are combinatorially applied in a multi-scale numerical simulation of the urban surface layer (USL). RAMS and FLUENT are combined as a multi-scale numerical modeling system, in which the RAMS simulated data are delivered to the computational model for FLUENT simulation in an offline way. Numerical simulations are performed to present and preliminarily validate the capability of the multi-scale modeling system, and the results show that the modeling system can reasonably provide information on the meteorological elements in an urban area from the urban scale to the city-block scale, especially the details of the turbulent flows within the USL.
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Li, L., Hu, F., Jiang, J. et al. An application of the RAMS/FLUENT system on the multi-scale numerical simulation of the urban surface layer—A preliminary study. Adv. Atmos. Sci. 24, 271–280 (2007). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00376-007-0271-y
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