Pedestrian wind comfort around a large football stadium in an urban environment: CFD simulation, validation and application of the new Dutch wind nuisance standard

Journal of Wind Engineering and Industrial Aerodynamics

Volumn 97, Issue 5-6, 2009, Pages 255-270

  Blocken, B ^a   Persoon, J ^a  

^a EINDHOVEN UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Building; Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD); Full scale experiments; Numerical simulation; Pedestrian wind environment; Soccer stadium; Sport stadium aerodynamics; Validation; Wind conditions; Wind flow

Indexed keywords

FULL-SCALE EXPERIMENTS; NUMERICAL SIMULATION; PEDESTRIAN WIND ENVIRONMENT; SOCCER STADIUM; SPORT STADIUM AERODYNAMICS; VALIDATION; WIND CONDITIONS; WIND FLOW;

AERODYNAMICS; COMPUTATIONAL FLUID DYNAMICS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; COMPUTER SIMULATION LANGUAGES; FLOW SIMULATION; FLUID DYNAMICS; NAVIER STOKES EQUATIONS; RECREATION CENTERS; ROADS AND STREETS; STADIUMS; STANDARDS; TALL BUILDINGS; WIND EFFECTS;

EXPERIMENTS;

EID: 69549109982     PISSN: 01676105     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jweia.2009.06.007     Document Type: Article

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