Wind tunnel studies of a pedestrian-level wind environment in a street canyon between a high-rise building with a podium and low-level attached houses

Energies

Volumn 8, Issue 10, 2015, Pages 10942-10957

  Kuo, Chien Yuan ^a,b   Tzeng, Chun Ta ^a   Ho, Ming Chin ^b   Lai, Chi Ming ^a  

^a NATIONAL CHENG KUNG UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^b ARCHITECTURE AND BUILDING RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

High rise building; Pedestrian level wind; Podium; Street canyon; Wind tunnel

Indexed keywords

AIR POLLUTION CONTROL; TALL BUILDINGS; WIND; WIND TUNNELS;

HIGH RISE BUILDING; MULTIPLE FACTORS; PEDESTRIAN LEVEL WIND ENVIRONMENT; PODIUM; STREET CANYON; SURROUNDING BUILDINGS; WIND DIRECTIONS; WIND TUNNEL EXPERIMENT;

COMPUTER INTEGRATED MANUFACTURING;

EID: 84946075372     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19961073     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3390/en81010942     Document Type: Article

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