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Heat Transfer and Pollutant Dispersion in Street Canyons

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The Heat transfer rapid economic development with a dramatic growth of urbanization has induced many environmental issues. The emission of various pollutants into the atmospheric is one of the most severe pollutions, which directly associated people’s health problems in urban air environment.

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  1. School of Civil Engineering and Architecture, Wuhan University of Technology, Wuhan, Hubei, China

    Tingzhen Ming

  2. School of Architecture and Urban Planning, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Wuhan, Hubei, China

    Chong Peng

  3. School of Energy and Power Engineering, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Wuhan, Hubei, China

    Tingrui Gong & Zhengtong Li

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Ming, T., Peng, C., Gong, T., Li, Z. (2017). Heat Transfer and Pollutant Dispersion in Street Canyons. In: Pollutant Dispersion in Built Environment. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-10-3821-1_2

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