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Rex Britter
Researcher at Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Publications - 232
Citations - 11655
Rex Britter is an academic researcher from Massachusetts Institute of Technology. The author has contributed to research in topics: Turbulence & Dispersion (optics). The author has an hindex of 57, co-authored 232 publications receiving 10526 citations. Previous affiliations of Rex Britter include North Carolina State University & Singapore–MIT alliance.
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Conditions for thermal circulation in urban street canyons
Ann Dallman,S. Magnusson,Rex Britter,Leslie K. Norford,Dara Entekhabi,Harindra J. S. Fernando +5 more
TL;DR: In this article, the authors studied the effect of non-uniform heating of building walls and the ground in an urban street canyon may induce thermally driven circulation that competes with inertially driven circulation due to overlying winds, and derived a buoyancy parameter, B = ( g α Δ T H ) / ( u 0 2 [ 1 + ( H / L ) 2 ] ), where gαΔT is the horizontal anomaly of buoyancy arising from differential heating of canyon walls, H the canyon height, L the canyon width and u 0 the background velocity
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Simulations of the dispersion of reactive pollutants in a street canyon, considering different chemical mechanisms and micromixing
TL;DR: The Stochastic Fields (SF) or Field Monte Carlo (FMC) method has been used to model the dispersion of reactive scalars in a street canyon, using a simple chemistry and the CBM-IV mechanism as mentioned in this paper.
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Transfer processes in a simulated urban street canyon
Efisio Solazzo,Rex Britter +1 more
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors investigated the transfer process within and above a simulated urban street canyon and used computational fluid dynamics (CFD) to aid understanding and to produce some simple operational parameterisations.
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Effect of stable stratification on dispersion within urban street canyons: A large-eddy simulation
TL;DR: In this article, the effect of a stable stratified roughness sublayer (RSL) on scalar transport within an urban street canyon is investigated. And the authors employ a validated large-eddy simulation (LES) code with high tempo-spatial resolution to investigate the effects of stable stratification on the flow and turbulence inside the street canyon.