Pedestrian wind comfort near a super-tall building with various configurations in an urban-like setting

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Xinyue Zhang
Asiri Umenga Weerasuriya
Xuelin Zhang
Kam Tim Tse
Bin Lu
Cruz Yutong Li
Chun-Ho Liu
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[1] City University of Hong Kong,Department of Architectural and Civil Engineering
[2] The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology,Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering
[3] The University of Hong Kong,Department of Mechanical Engineering
[4] Sun Yat-sen University,School of Atmospheric Sciences
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Building Simulation | 2020年 / 13卷
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pedestrian wind comfort; super-tall building; building configuration; urban wind environment; computational fluid dynamics simulation;
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Pedestrian wind comfort near a 400 m super-tall building in high and low ambient wind speeds, referred to as Windy and Calm climates, is evaluated by conducting computational fluid dynamics (CFD) simulations. The super-tall building has 15 different configurations and is located at the center of 50 m medium-rise buildings in an urban-like setting. Pedestrian level mean wind speeds near the super-tall building is obtained from three-dimensional (3D), steady-state, Reynolds-Averaged Navier-Stokes (RANS)-based simulations for five incident wind directions (θ = 0°, 22.5°, 45°, 90°, 180°) that are subsequently compared with two wind comfort criteria specified for Calm and Windy climates. Results show a 1.53 times increase in maximum mean wind speed in the urban area after the construction of a square-shaped super-tall building. The escalated mean wind speeds result in a 23%–15% and 36%–29% decrease in the area with “acceptable wind comfort” in Calm and Windy climates, respectively. The area with pedestrian wind comfort varies significantly with building configuration and incident wind direction, for example, the configurations with sharp corners, large plan aspect ratios and, frontal areas and the orientation consistently show a strong dependency on incident wind direction except for the one with rounded plan shapes. Minor aerodynamic modifications such as corner modifications and aerodynamically-shaped configurations such as tapered and setback buildings show promise in improving pedestrian wind comfort in Windy climate.
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页码:1385 / 1408
页数:23
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