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Title
Advanced environmental wind engineering [electronic resource] / Yukio Tamura, Ryuichiro Yoshie, editors.
ISBN
9784431559122 (electronic book)
4431559124 (electronic book)
9784431559108
Published
Japan : Springer, 2016.
Language
English
Description
1 online resource (vii, 196 pages) : illustrations.
Item Number
10.1007/978-4-431-55912-2 doi
Call Number
TH7674
Dewey Decimal Classification
697.9/2
Summary
This book is highly suitable for advanced courses as it introduces state-of-the-art information and the latest research results on diverse problems in the environmental wind engineering field. The topics include indoor natural ventilation, pedestrian wind environment, pollutant dispersion, urban heat island phenomena, urban ventilation, indoor/outdoor thermal comfort, and experimental/numerical techniques to analyze those issues. Winds have a great influence on the outdoor environment, especially in urban areas. Problems that they cause can be attributed to either strong wind or weak wind issues. Strong winds around high-rise buildings can bring about unpleasant, and in some cases dangerous, situations for people in the outdoor environment. On the other hand, weak wind conditions can also cause problems such as air pollution and heat island phenomena in urban areas. Winds enhance urban ventilation and reduce those problems. They also enhance natural ventilation in buildings, which can reduce the energy consumption of mechanical ventilation fans and air conditioners for cooling. Moderate winds improve human thermal comfort in both indoor and outdoor environments in summer. Environmental wind engineering associated with wind tunnel experiments and numerical analysis can contribute to solutions to these issues.
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Online resource; title from PDF title page (SpringerLink, viewed March 28, 2016).
Available in Other Form
Print version: 9784431559108
Design procedures for natural ventilation
Theoretical models of envelope flow
steady and unsteady
Ventilation Flow Structure and High-precision Ventilation Network Model
Passive Cooling of Buildings-Present and Future Needs
Recent Progress on Passive Cooling Convective Technologies
Thermal Comfort Inside and Outside Buildings
Pedestrian wind environment around tall buildings
Wind-induced dispersion of pollutants in the urban environment
Trends in the field of quality assurance of urban flow and dispersion models
Wind Tunnel Experiment and Large Eddy Simulation of Pollutant/Thermal Dispersion in Non-Isothermal Turbulent Boundary Layer.
