@inproceedings{68088f267ed8411a942645b9f82060e8,
title = "How many surrounding buildings should be included in simulating wind flow around a building?",
abstract = "Study of wind flow around a building in an urban community is important for natural ventilation, pedestrian comfort, and air pollutant dispersion. A CFD study was conducted to explore the influence of surrounding buildings on the wind flow around the building with different geometrical models. The models differ on the geometrical details around the building. The results show that the surrounding buildings had a considerable impact on the wind flow around the building due to the sheltering and Venturi effect. Excluding the urban environment in the computational domain could lead to an overestimation of the wind speed and pressure difference with 85% and 200%, respectively. The predicted wind speed and pressure distributions improved with the increase of the details of building structures in the surroundings. To achieve acceptable results, a minimum of three times of the length scale (the length scale is the largest dimension of the building) within the radius of the buildings should have detailed building structures in the CFD simulation.",
keywords = "CFD, Field measurements, Full-scale model, Surroundings, Urban wind flow",
author = "Sumei Liu and Wuxuan Pan and Hao Zhang and Xionglei Cheng and Zhengwei Long and Qingyan Chen",
note = "Funding Information: The research presented in this paper was partially supported by the National Key R&D Program from the Ministry of Science and Technology, China, on “Green Buildings and Building Industrialization” through Grant No. 2016YFC0700500 and by the National Natural Science Foundation of China through Grant No. 51678395. Publisher Copyright: {\textcopyright} 2018 15th Conference of the International Society of Indoor Air Quality and Climate, INDOOR AIR 2018. All rights reserved.; 15th Conference of the International Society of Indoor Air Quality and Climate, INDOOR AIR 2018 ; Conference date: 22-07-2018 Through 27-07-2018",
year = "2018",
language = "English",
series = "15th Conference of the International Society of Indoor Air Quality and Climate, INDOOR AIR 2018",
publisher = "International Society of Indoor Air Quality and Climate",
booktitle = "15th Conference of the International Society of Indoor Air Quality and Climate, INDOOR AIR 2018",
}
