New criteria for assessing local wind environment at pedestrian level based on exceedance probability analysis

Building and Environment

Volumn 44, Issue 7, 2009, Pages 1501-1508

  Bu, Zhen ^a   Kato, Shinsuke ^b   Ishida, Yoshihiro ^b   Huang, Hong ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

^b INSTITUTE OF INDUSTRIAL SCIENCE   (Japan)

Author keywords

Exceedance probability (EP); Local air change rate (LACR); Local kinetic energy (KE); Local wind environment; Void

Indexed keywords

ASPECT RATIO; DISTRIBUTION FUNCTIONS; ELECTRON ENERGY LOSS SPECTROSCOPY; KINETIC ENERGY; PARTICLE SIZE ANALYSIS; RELIABILITY ANALYSIS; UNCERTAINTY ANALYSIS; VENTILATION;

EXCEEDANCE PROBABILITY (EP); LOCAL AIR CHANGE RATE (LACR); LOCAL KINETIC ENERGY (KE); LOCAL WIND ENVIRONMENT; VOID;

WIND POWER;

ASSESSMENT METHOD; ESTIMATION METHOD; KINETIC ENERGY; PEDESTRIAN; PROBABILITY; VENTILATION;

EID: 60749099800     PISSN: 03601323     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.buildenv.2008.08.002     Document Type: Article

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