Analysis of airflow over building arrays for assessment of urban wind environment

Building and Environment

Volumn 59, Issue , 2013, Pages 56-65

  Abd Razak, Azli ^a   Hagishima, Aya ^b   Ikegaya, Naoki ^b   Tanimoto, Jun ^b  

^a UNIVERSITI TEKNOLOGI MARA   (Malaysia)

^b KYUSHU UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Aspect ratio; Frontal area ratio; Large eddy simulation; Pedestrian wind speed; Plan area ratio

Indexed keywords

AREA RATIOS; BLOCK ARRAYS; BUILDING ARRAY; EXPONENTIAL EQUATIONS; FRONTAL AREAS; MEAN WIND PROFILES; PEDESTRIAN WIND ENVIRONMENT; SIMULATION ACCURACY; WIND ENVIRONMENT; WIND PROFILES; WIND SPEED;

LARGE EDDY SIMULATION; WIND EFFECTS;

ASPECT RATIO;

AIRFLOW; BUILDING; LARGE EDDY SIMULATION; PEDESTRIAN; URBAN AREA; WIND FIELD; WIND PROFILE; DRAG COEFFICIENT; WIND VELOCITY;

EID: 84870439298     PISSN: 03601323     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.buildenv.2012.08.007     Document Type: Article

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