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Dr. Kevin F. McNamara

Lecturer (retired)

Kevin's main research areas include: Wind Engineering: Loads on Buildings; Local Pressures; Wind-Tunnel Testing; Ventilation; Air Pollution.

Publications

Journals

Wang X. and McNamara K F. Effects of street orientation on dispersion at or near urban street intersections. J. of Wind Eng. and Ind. Aerody. 95, (9 -11), (Oct. 2007) pp 1526 - 1540.
Wang X and McNamara K F. Evaluation of CFD simulation using RANS turbulence models for building effects on pollutant dispersion [J]. Environmental Fluid Mechanics, 2006, 6(2): 181-202.
Wang X and McNamara K F. Numerical and wind tunnel simulation of pollutant dispersion in the near wake of buildings [J]. Wind & Structures, 2005, 8(6): 427-442.
Wang X. and McNamara K F. Effects of buildings on pollutant dispersion from a nearby source by means of large-eddy simulation. Chinese Journal of Applied Mechanics. 2007, 24(2): 84-88.
Wang X. and McNamara K F. Discussion on wind-tunnel simulation of the effects of buildings on pollutant dispersion. Journal of Experiments in Fluid Mechanics.2006, 20(3), 63-70.
Wang X.. and McNamara K F. Effects of orientation of street on pollutant dispersion at urban street intersections. Journal of Huazhong University of Science and Technology (Urban Science Edition). 2006, 23(1), 13-18.

Conferences

McNamara K F and Wang X. A user-developed computer program used in wind tunnel experiments In: Proc. of 12ICWE (CD-ROM version). 2007.7, Cairns, Australia.
McNamara K F and Wang X. Effects of street orientation on dispersion at or near urban street intersections. In: Proc. of EACWE-4 (CD-ROM version). 2005.7, Prague, Czech Republic.
Wang X and McNamara K F. An evaluation of CFD simulation using RANS turbulence models for dispersion around buildings. In: Proc. of the 6th UK Conference on wind engineering. 2004.9, p1-p4. Cranfield, UK.
Wang X and McNamara K F. Numerical simulation of the effects of building-induced vertical vortex pairs on pollutant dispersion in the cavity region. In: Proc. of 11ICWE (CD-ROM version). 2003.6. Lubbock, USA.
Wang X and McNamara K F. CFD simulation of plume dispersion within clusters of buildings. In: Proc. of the 5th UK Conference on wind Engineering. 2002.9, 101-104. Nottingham, UK.
Wang X and McNamara K F. Wind tunnel simulation of plume dispersion around a cube in a turbulent boundary layer. In: Proc. of APCWE-6 (CD-ROM version). 2005.9. Seoul Korea.
Riewaldt H, Lastiwka M, Quinlan N, McNamara K, Wang X, Anderson T and Shearer A. Wind on the Euro50 Enclosure. In: Proc. of SPIE. 2004.
Anderson T, Ardeberg A, Riewaldt H, Lastiwka M, Quinlan N, McNamara K, Wang X, Enmark A, Owner-Petersen M, Shearer A, Fan C and Moraru D. Status of the Euro50 Project In: Proc. of SPIE. 2004.

Civil Engineering
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This page was last updated Monday, June 11, 2012