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Urban aerodynamics : wind engineering for urban planners and designers /
Prepared by the Task Committee on Urban Aerodynamics of the Environmental Wind Engineering Committee of the Technical Council on Wind Engineering of ASCE. Urban Aerodynamics: Wind Engineering for Urban Planners and Designers introduces the basic tools and technology used by engineers to determine th...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Reston, Va. :
American Society of Civil Engineers,
©2011.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Machine generated contents note: ch. 1 Introduction
- Objectives of this Booklet
- Scope
- Elements of Urban Aerodynamics
- Wind Engineering in Urban Aerodynamics
- Tools and Techniques
- Selected Bibliography
- ch. 2 Elements Of Urban Aerodynamics
- Historic Consideration of Wind in Urban Planning
- Influence of Industrial Revolution on Town Planning
- Contemporary Consideration of Wind in Urban Environments
- Pedestrian Level Winds
- Summer Breeze Penetration and Urban Heat Islands
- Natural Ventilation for Sustainable Urban Development
- ch. 3 Engineering In Urban Aerodynamics
- Urban Hurricane and Tornado Shelters
- Pedestrian Level Winds
- Urban Design for Breeze Penetration
- Winter Wind Shielding
- Natural Ventilation of High-rise Office Buildings
- Natural Ventilation of Low-rise Buildings
- Human Thermal Comfort in Naturally Ventilated Spaces
- Backup for Wind-Driven Naturally Ventilated Spaces
- Dispersion of Urban Airborne Pollutants.
- Note continued: Dispersion Modeling in Boundary Layer Wind Tunnels
- Dispersion Modeling with Computational Fluid Dynamics
- Urban Wind Power
- ch. 4 Tools And Techniques
- Flow Visualization
- Quantifying Wind Effects
- Boundary Layer Wind Tunnels
- Wind Tunnel Measurements
- Validation of Boundary Layer Wind Tunnel Studies
- Computational Fluid Dynamics
- Field Studies
- ch. 5 Concluding Remarks.