Boundary layer wind tunnel tests of outdoor airflow field around urban buildings: A review of methods and status

Y Zhao, R Li, L Feng, Y Wu, J Niu, N Gao - Renewable and Sustainable …, 2022 - Elsevier
Outdoor airflow fields have received increasing attention in the building aerodynamics
community in virtue of the airflow distributions around buildings are closely related to issues …

Improving air quality through urban form optimization: A review study

S Li, B Zou, X Ma, N Liu, Z Zhang, M Xie, L Zhi - Building and Environment, 2023 - Elsevier
Air pollution is a significant global environmental issue. Nevertheless, the importance of
rational urban planning in mitigating it is frequently disregarded. Conducting air quality …

Urban wind energy: Some views on potential and challenges

T Stathopoulos, H Alrawashdeh, A Al-Quraan… - Journal of Wind …, 2018 - Elsevier
Urban wind energy consists of the utilization of wind energy technology in applications to the
urban and suburban built environment. The paper provides some views on the progress …

PIGNN-CFD: A physics-informed graph neural network for rapid predicting urban wind field defined on unstructured mesh

X Shao, Z Liu, S Zhang, Z Zhao, C Hu - Building and Environment, 2023 - Elsevier
Urban wind field plays an important role in quantitative assessment of urban environment.
Compared to field measurement and wind tunnel experiment, Computational Fluid …

Interactions between extreme climate and urban morphology: Investigating the evolution of extreme wind speeds from mesoscale to microscale

K Javanroodi, VM Nik - Urban Climate, 2020 - Elsevier
This paper investigates the interactions between urban morphology indicators and extreme
weather variables. In this regard, variations of wind speed and air temperature at the urban …

Recent developments and issues of small-scale wind turbines in urban residential buildings-A review

N Aravindhan, MP Natarajan… - Energy & …, 2023 - journals.sagepub.com
To address the future growth in energy demands, complete renewable power generation
from environmental assets demands unique methodologies from every investigator. Wind …

A CFD study of wind assessment in urban topology with complex wind flow

S Zhang, KCS Kwok, H Liu, Y Jiang, K Dong… - Sustainable Cities and …, 2021 - Elsevier
This paper presents a CFD study on the air ventilation assessment (AVA) in urban topology
with twisted wind profiles (TWP). At present, most AVAs were conducted through wind tunnel …

Experimental study on the aeroelastic response of a square supertall building considering twisted wind effect

B Yan, W Ding, X Zhou, K Guo, H Ren, X Li… - Engineering Structures, 2023 - Elsevier
For high-slenderness supertall buildings, the aeroelastic effect has been carefully
addressed, as the ignorance of aeroelastic response may significantly affect the …

Experimental investigation on the aerodynamic characteristics of a tall building subjected to twisted wind

L Zhou, KT Tse, G Hu - Journal of Wind Engineering and Industrial …, 2022 - Elsevier
The influence of twisted wind profile (TWP) on aerodynamic characteristics of tall building is
investigated by pressure measurement test with varying angle of attack (AOA) of (− 90°, 90°) …

The impact of twisted wind on pedestrian comfort around two non-identical-height buildings in tandem arrangement: a wind tunnel study

W Li, CM Mak, Y Fu, C Cai, KT Tse, J Niu - Building and Environment, 2024 - Elsevier
Due to the impact of urbanization, an increasing number of buildings are being constructed
near hilly terrains because of the limited availability of land resources. The influence of …