Improving Pedestrian wind comfort around a high rise building in an urban area: A case study by CFD simulations and on-site measurements

Wendy D. Janssen; Bert Blocken; Twan van Hooff

Improving Pedestrian wind comfort around a high rise building in an urban area: A case study by CFD simulations and on-site measurements

Wendy D. Janssen^*, Bert Blocken, Twan van Hooff

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Abstract

Pedestrian wind comfort is analysed for a new shopping street area in Eindhoven city centre. 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 analysed. A large canopy is shown to be successful in bringing the wind comfort to an acceptable level.

Original language	English
Publication status	Published - 2013
Event	6th European and African Conference on Wind Engineering 2013 - Robinson College, Cambridge, United Kingdom Duration: 7 Jul 2013 → 11 Jul 2013 Conference number: 6 https://www.iawe.org/iaweconf.html

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Conference	6th European and African Conference on Wind Engineering 2013
Abbreviated title	EACWE 2013
Country/Territory	United Kingdom
City	Cambridge
Period	7/07/13 → 11/07/13
Internet address	https://www.iawe.org/iaweconf.html

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2013. Paper presented at 6th European and African Conference on Wind Engineering 2013, Cambridge, United Kingdom.

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