Advanced Environmental Wind Engineering

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: Tamura, Yukio (Editor), Yoshie, Ryuichiro (Editor)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Tokyo : Springer Japan : Imprint: Springer, 2016.
• Edition: 1st ed. 2016.
• Subjects: Earth sciences.; Environmental sciences.; Fluids.; Civil engineering.; Earth Sciences.; Environmental Science and Engineering.; Civil Engineering.; Fluid- and Aerodynamics.

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 hea...

Table of Contents:

• 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.