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Pedestrian environment prediction with different types of on-shore building distribution

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The aim of this work is to evaluate how the building distribution influences the cooling effect of water bodies. Different turbulence models, including the S-A, SKE, RNG, Realizable, Low-KE and RSM model, were evaluated, and the CFD results were compared with wind tunnel experiment. The effects of the water body were detected by analyzing the water vapor distribution around it. It is found that the RNG model is the most effective model in terms of accuracy and computational economy. Next, the RNG model was used to simulate four waterfront planning cases to predict the wind, thermal and moisture environment in urban areas around urban water bodies. The results indicate that the building distribution, especially the height of the frontal building, has a larger effect on the water vapor dispersion, and indicate that the column-type distribution has a better performance than the enclosed-type distribution.

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  1. School of Municipal and Environmental Engineering, Harbin Institute of Technology, Harbin, 150090, China

    Xiao-cheng Song  (宋晓程)

  2. State Key Laboratory of Urban Water Resource and Environment, Harbin Institute of Technology, Harbin, 150090, China

    Jing Liu  (刘京)

  3. Shenzhen Key Laboratory of Urban Planning and Decision Making, Harbin Institute of Technology, Shenzhen, 518055, China

    Lei Yu  (余磊)

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Song, Xc., Liu, J. & Yu, L. Pedestrian environment prediction with different types of on-shore building distribution. J. Cent. South Univ. 23, 955–968 (2016). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11771-016-3143-8

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