Computational evaluation of pedestrian wind comfort and wind safety around a high-rise building in an urban area

Wendy D. Janssen; Bert Blocken; Twan van Hooff

Computational evaluation of pedestrian wind comfort and wind safety around a high-rise building in an urban area

Wendy D. Janssen, Bert Blocken, Twan van Hooff

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Abstract

Pedestrian wind comfort is analyzed for a new shopping street area in Eindhoven city center. Wind nuisance is especially perceived around a tower of 105 m high, at an intersection of two streets. The Dutch wind nuisance standard NEN 8100 combined with CFD (Computational Fluid Dynamics) simulations is used to assess the pedestrian wind comfort. Special care is given to the grid generation and comparison of the CFD simulations with on-site wind speed measurements. The effectiveness of a series of incremental remedial measures is analyzed. A large canopy is shown to be successful in bringing the wind comfort to an acceptable level.

Original language	English
Pages	2155-2162
Number of pages	8
Publication status	Published - 17 Jun 2014
Event	7th International Congress on Environmental Modelling and Software 2014 - San Diego, United States Duration: 15 Jun 2014 → 19 Jun 2014 Conference number: iEMSs 2014 https://iemss.org/publications/conference/iemss-2014-proceedings/

Conference

Conference	7th International Congress on Environmental Modelling and Software 2014
Abbreviated title	iEMSs 2014
Country/Territory	United States
City	San Diego
Period	15/06/14 → 19/06/14
Internet address	https://iemss.org/publications/conference/iemss-2014-proceedings/

Keywords

Built environment
Comfort
Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD)
Validation
Wind flow

ASJC Scopus subject areas

Software
Environmental Engineering
Modelling and Simulation

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Janssen, W. D., Blocken, B., & van Hooff, T. (2014). Computational evaluation of pedestrian wind comfort and wind safety around a high-rise building in an urban area. 2155-2162. Paper presented at 7th International Congress on Environmental Modelling and Software 2014, San Diego, California, United States. https://scholarsarchive.byu.edu/iemssconference/2014/Stream-H/73/

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Janssen, WD, Blocken, B & van Hooff, T 2014, 'Computational evaluation of pedestrian wind comfort and wind safety around a high-rise building in an urban area', Paper presented at 7th International Congress on Environmental Modelling and Software 2014, San Diego, United States, 15/06/14 - 19/06/14 pp. 2155-2162. <https://scholarsarchive.byu.edu/iemssconference/2014/Stream-H/73/>

Computational evaluation of pedestrian wind comfort and wind safety around a high-rise building in an urban area. / Janssen, Wendy D.; Blocken, Bert; van Hooff, Twan.
2014. 2155-2162 Paper presented at 7th International Congress on Environmental Modelling and Software 2014, San Diego, California, United States.

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Computational evaluation of pedestrian wind comfort and wind safety around a high-rise building in an urban area

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