Predicting outdoor thermal comfort in urban environments: A 3D numerical model for standard effective temperature

Urban Climate

Volumn 20, Issue , 2017, Pages 251-267

  Nazarian, Negin ^a,b   Fan, Jipeng ^a   Sin, Tiffany ^c   Norford, Leslie ^d   Kleissl, Jan ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b SINGAPORE MIT ALLIANCE FOR RESEARCH AND TECHNOLOGY   (Singapore)

^c YALE NUS COLLEGE   (Singapore)

^d MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

Computational fluid dynamics; Mean radiant temperature; Outdoor thermal comfort; Standard effective temperature; Urban microclimate

Indexed keywords

EID: 85017436458     PISSN: 22120955     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.uclim.2017.04.011     Document Type: Article

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