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Pedestrian Wind Environment Around Tall Buildings

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Pedestrian-level wind conditions around tall buildings are described by examining the aerodynamics of the urban environment and the various wind comfort criteria established in the wind engineering field. Experimental and, possibly, computational assessment of pedestrian-level wind conditions in the urban environment are described in detail. Particular emphasis has been placed on the state of the art and the capabilities of Computational Wind Engineering to determine at least mean values of wind speeds in the vicinity of buildings in urban areas. An approach toward the establishment of an overall comfort index taking into account, in addition to wind speed, the temperature, and relative humidity in the urban area under consideration, is presented.

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Acknowledgment

The assistance of several graduate students in putting this chapter together and the financial support of the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada (NSERC) to the first author are gratefully acknowledged and highly appreciated.

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  1. Department of Building, Civil and Environmental Engineering, Concordia University, Montreal, QC, H3G 1M8, Canada

    Ted Stathopoulos

  2. Department of the Built Environment, Eindhoven University of Technology, 5600 MB, Eindhoven, The Netherlands

    Bert Blocken

  3. Department of Civil Engineering, Leuven University, 3001, Leuven, Belgium

    Bert Blocken

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Stathopoulos, T., Blocken, B. (2016). Pedestrian Wind Environment Around Tall Buildings. In: Tamura, Y., Yoshie, R. (eds) Advanced Environmental Wind Engineering. Springer, Tokyo. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-4-431-55912-2_6

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