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Ping Chen, Lufeng Nie, Jinrun Kang and Heng Liu
With urban development and renewal, underground space is becoming more utilized. The design and use of open underground public space entrances and exits have become more and more frequent. As a pedestrian passage connecting indoors and outdoors, the wind...
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Zhen Xie and Yongshan Zhang
The natural frequency of the long-span steel structure corridor is close to the pedestrian step frequency, which makes it very easy to cause resonance. This paper aims to study crowd-induced vibration control of long-span steel pedestrian corridors with ...
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Yueyun Hu, Congchuan Hu, Guangdong Liu, Xiaofang Shan, Qinli Deng, Zhigang Ren and Qianyu Tang
This paper studies the influence of different piloti rates (0%, 20%, 40%, 60%, 80%, 100%) on outdoor wind comfort for three building groups, i.e., determinant type, point type, and enclosure type. LES (Large Eddy Simulation) is used to simulate the wind ...
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Jou-Man Huang and Liang-Chun Chen
With the global warming effect and the rapid growth of global urbanization, the concept of urban heat islands (UHIs) has become one of the most important environmental issues in the world. Early studies on UHIs mostly focused on highly developed, large c...
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Ömer Kaya, Muhammed Yasin Çodur and Enea Mustafaraj
Autonomous vehicles have gained popularity in recent years, but they are still not compatible with other vulnerable components of the traffic system, including pedestrians, bicyclists, motorcyclists, and occupants of smaller vehicles such as passenger ca...
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Serena Falasca, Annalisa Di Bernardino, Virgilio Ciancio, Gabriele Curci and Ferdinando Salata
The thermo-hygrometric sensation of pedestrians in outdoor environments can be quantified by means of bioclimatic indices. In this work, the Mediterranean Outdoor Thermal Comfort Index (MOCI) is applied in the city of Rome (Italy) for the purpose of inve...
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Athanasios Koukofikis and Volker Coors
Moving into the third decade of the 21st century, smart cities are becoming a vital concept of advancement of the quality of life. Without any doubt, cities today can generate data of high velocity which can be used in plethora of applications. The wind ...
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Azin Hosseinzadeh and Amir Keshmiri
Due to a rapid increase in urbanisation, accurate wind microclimate assessment is of crucial importance. Evaluating wind flows around buildings is part of the planning application process in the design of new developments. In this study, computational fl...
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Mohamed H. Elnabawi and Neveen Hamza
Thermal comfort plays a main role in encouraging people to use outdoor spaces, specifically in hot arid and humid climates. The reconciliation of climatic aspects during the urban design phase is limited in implementation, due to the need for multidiscip...
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Gokhan Kirkil and Ching-Long Lin
A high-resolution large eddy simulation (LES) of wind flow over the Oklahoma City downtown area was performed to explain the effect of the building height on wind flow over the city. Wind flow over cities is vital for pedestrian and traffic comfort as we...
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