Application of exceedance probability based on wind kinetic energy to evaluate the pedestrian level wind in dense urban areas

Building and Environment

Volumn 46, Issue 9, 2011, Pages 1834-1842

  Bady, Mahmoud ^a   Kato, Shinsuke ^b   Ishida, Yoshihiro ^b   Huang, Hong ^b   Takahashi, Takeo ^b  

^a Assiut University   (Egypt)

^b INSTITUTE OF INDUSTRIAL SCIENCE   (Japan)

Author keywords

Built up area; Exceedance probability; Urban ventilation; Wind environment; Wind kinetic energy

Indexed keywords

BUILDING ARRAY; BUILT-UP AREAS; DENSE URBAN AREAS; EXCEEDANCE PROBABILITY; MEAN-WINDS; NEW APPROACHES; PEDESTRIAN WIND ENVIRONMENT; STREET CANYON; TOKYO , JAPAN; TYPICAL MODEL; URBAN AREAS; URBAN VENTILATION; WIND CONDITIONS; WIND ENVIRONMENT; WIND FLOW;

COMPUTER SIMULATION; ELECTRON ENERGY LOSS SPECTROSCOPY; KINETIC ENERGY;

PROBABILITY;

BUILDING; ESTIMATION METHOD; KINETIC ENERGY; PROBABILITY; STREET CANYON; URBAN AREA; VENTILATION;

HONSHU; JAPAN; KANTO; TOKYO [KANTO];

EID: 79954802741     PISSN: 03601323     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.buildenv.2011.03.003     Document Type: Article

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