The All-Wind-Direction Computer Simulation on the Outdoor Wind Environment

Abstract:

This paper aims to investigate how the wind drection influence the outdoor wind environment. Fluent Airpak is used to simulate the wind environment of a residential area in Hangzhou city of China, the atmosphere boundary layer （ABL） is setted up as 16 wind direction with the mean velocity on each wind direction throughout the local typical year meteorological data. The simulation yield the data for the Maximum Wind Velocity (MWV) and the Amplification Factor (AF) Two main findings are:1)The MWV and AF vary greatly according to the wind direction setted up in ABL. 2)None of the wind directions which present to the maximum MWV and the maximum AF in the residential area is consistent with the wind direction with highest frequency in the local typical year meteorological data. Therefore, it is suggested that the outdoor wind simulation should be carried out by the all directions rather than the wind direction with the highest frequency.

• Periodical: Advanced Materials Research (Volume 599)
• Pages: 202-205
• DOI: https://doi.org/10.4028/www.scientific.net/AMR.599.202
• Online since: November 2012
• Authors: Hui Xin Tai, Yu Lan Yang, Fuying Liu
• Keywords: Buildings Codes, Green Building, Wind Environment

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