CFD simulation for pedestrian wind comfort and wind safety in urban areas: General decision framework and case study for the Eindhoven University campus

By B. Blocken, W. Janssen, T. V. Hooff. Environmental Modelling & Software, 2012

536 citations recorded by the source corpus.

Subfields: Aerospace Engineering, Computational Mechanics, Environmental Engineering

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In Aerospace Engineering

1. B. Blocken
2. Carlo Gualtieri
3. Thijs Defraeye
4. Jan Carmeliet
5. Bino Maiheu
6. Y. Toparlar
7. G. Heijst
8. P. Hespel

In Computational Mechanics

1. B. Blocken
2. Carlo Gualtieri
3. Thijs Defraeye
4. Jan Carmeliet
5. Bino Maiheu
6. Y. Toparlar
7. G. Heijst
8. P. Hespel

In Environmental Engineering

1. B. Blocken
2. Carlo Gualtieri
3. Thijs Defraeye
4. Bino Maiheu
5. Y. Toparlar
6. G. Heijst
7. Jan Carmeliet
8. P. Hespel

Citations in the corpus

• A review on the CFD analysis of urban microclimate (2017, background): “CFD studies on urban microscale investigating pedestrian wind comfort [82,383,384] and thermal comfort [385], are not investigated in this review if their focus was only on the modeling of velocity field, without”
• LES over RANS in building simulation for outdoor and indoor applications: A foregone conclusion? (2018, background): “…Takakura et al. 1993; Bottema 1993; Stathopoulous and Baskaran 1996; Murakami 1997; Westbury et al. 2002; Richards et al. 2002; Hirsh et al. 2002; Blocken et al. 2004, 2012; Yoshie et al. 2007; Mochida and Lun 2008; Tominaga et al. 2008a; Blocken and Carmeliet 2008; Blocken and Persoon 2009;…”
• Ten iterative steps for model development and evaluation applied to Computational Fluid Dynamics for Environmental Fluid Mechanics (2012, background): “…in the outdoor environment around buildings, including pedestrian wind comfort (e.g. Stathopoulos and Baskaran, 1990; Richards et al., 2002; Blocken et al., 2004, 2012; Yoshie et al., 2007; Mochida and Lun, 2008; Tominaga et al., 2008a; Blocken and Persoon, 2009), wind-driven rain on…”
• CFD simulations of the aerodynamic drag of two drafting cyclists (2013, methodology): “The grids were based on grid-sensitivity analysis and grid-generation guidelines in CFD [25-31].”
• Computational Fluid Dynamics for urban physics: Importance, scales, possibilities, limitations and ten tips and tricks towards accurate and reliable simulations (2015, methodology): “In later publications, the power of this technique has been illustrated by application to a range of simple to complex building and urban configurations [19,41,49,73,77,229-232,234,235,247-255], some of which are illustrated in Figure 8, 9 and 15.”