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Hyungkeun Kim, Kyungsoo Lee and Taeyeon Kim
Two types of methods are used to evaluate pedestrian comfort: pedestrian wind comfort and outdoor thermal comfort. To accurately ascertain the outdoor wind environment, wind speed is the only parameter considered. However, pedestrians may still feel disc...
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Yueyun Hu, Congchuan Hu, Guangdong Liu, Xiaofang Shan, Qinli Deng, Zhigang Ren and Qianyu Tang
This paper studies the influence of different piloti rates (0%, 20%, 40%, 60%, 80%, 100%) on outdoor wind comfort for three building groups, i.e., determinant type, point type, and enclosure type. LES (Large Eddy Simulation) is used to simulate the wind ...
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Meng Zhen, Zilin Chen and Rui Zheng
The outdoor wind comfort is important for evaluations of the urban wind environment. The existing wind comfort criteria are based on the correlations between wind parameters, human activity levels, and wind comfort level categories. These criteria vary a...
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Zhen Peng, Yihua Chen, Wu Deng, Isaac Yu Fat Lun, Naibin Jiang, Gang Lv and Tongyu Zhou
In recent years, residents in high-rise residential complexes (HRCs) in China have been placing an increasing demand on the living quality in HRCs. Particularly, the outdoor wind conditions are garnering more attention; however, few studies on the wind c...
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Georgi Gadzhev and Kostadin Ganev
Air pollution is responsible for many adverse effects on human beings. Thermal discomfort, on the other hand, is able to overload the human body and eventually provoke health implications due to the heat imbalance. Methods: The aim of the presented work ...
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Zhao Liu, Chaorong Zheng, Dagang Lu, Yijing Wang, Yong Chen, Zhao Jin and Zhiming Zhang
A thousand-meter-high megatall building, which consists of three tear-drop-shaped towers arranged in an equilateral triangle and a central circular tower, has ten outdoor platforms along the height at an interval of 100 m to connect the four towers. As t...
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Qiuxia Xu, Zhen Xu and Chayn Sun
(1) Background: Evaluation of wind environments regarding pedestrian comfort may unveil potential hotspot areas, particularly in the context of the rapid urban development in China since the 1990s. (2) Method: With primary schools in Nanjing as case stud...
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Kuixing Liu, Weijie You, Xiyue Chen and Wenyu Liu
With global warming and the rapid development of urbanization, the outdoor thermal environment is deteriorating. More and more research focuses on the outdoor thermal environment and thermal comfort. The globe thermometer method is widely used in more th...
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Huanhuan Fang, Xiang Ji, Jiuxin Wang, Jijun Lu, Mengcheng Yang, Jiajun Li and Zhongcheng Duan
High-rise developments frequently exert adverse impacts on the outdoor wind environment, leading to a deterioration in the overall quality of urban surroundings and a reduction in the comfort levels of residents. This study systematically investigates ty...
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Chang Lin, Qiao Feng, Jun Huang and Ruize Zhong
The problem of population aging in China is becoming increasingly serious. Increasing outdoor space can increase the frequency of outdoor activities for the elderly and effectively improve their quality of life. In this study, we examined the thermal com...
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In moderate climates, the operation of windows is the most common way to control for thermal comfort. Window-opening behavior (WOB) is a complex process influenced by multiple factors, yet only simple bi-variate analyses between variables obtained from l...
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Jiao Xue, Xiao Hu, Shu Nuke Sani, Yuanyuan Wu, Xinyu Li, Liang Chai and Dayi Lai
Thermally comfortable outdoor spaces have contributed to high-quality urban living. In order to provide a further understanding of the influences of gender and long-term thermal history on outdoor thermal comfort, this study conducted field surveys at a ...
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Hong Jin, Bo Wang and Bingbing Han
Overwhelming evidence shows that the harsh climate conditions are affecting urban residents who are living in severe cold areas of China in winter, particularly affecting the frequency and length of outdoor space usage of the elderly. This study aims (1)...
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Hossein Ghandi and Mattia Federico Leone
Urbanization is exacerbating heat islands, causing adverse effects on life and health, including thermal stress. This highlights the importance of using natural resources for thermal regulation, particularly through historically employed passive strategi...
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Ping Chen, Lufeng Nie, Jinrun Kang and Heng Liu
With urban development and renewal, underground space is becoming more utilized. The design and use of open underground public space entrances and exits have become more and more frequent. As a pedestrian passage connecting indoors and outdoors, the wind...
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Kihong Park, Changhyun Jun, Jongjin Baik and Hyeon-Joon Kim
Rapid urbanization and increased human activity have negatively impacted the microclimate of cities, leading to unfavorable conditions for human thermal comfort, particularly in outdoor spaces. Thermal comfort can be improved through various means, such ...
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Chundong Ma, Yiyan Chen, Wenlin Gao and Binyi Liu
Outdoor public spaces that provide a comfortable microclimate significantly contribute to urban livability. However, more elaborate investigations are needed to enhance the research-based design of landscape spatial form for optimal thermal comfort perfo...
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Nicolás Ramírez,Afshin Afshari,Julián García
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Characterizing the urban form of cities from an aerodynamic point of view is essential to forecast pollutant dispersion, to implement and understand natural ventilation strategies or to enhance outdoor thermal comfort and pedestrian wind environment, to ...
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Tianyu Xi, Ming Wang, Enjia Cao, Jin Li, Yong Wang and Salanke Umar Sa?ad
The thermal comfort evaluation of the urban environment arouses widespread concern among scholars, and research in this field is mostly based on thermal comfort evaluation indexes such as PMV, PET, SET, UTCI, etc. These thermal comfort index evaluation m...
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Shaojie Zhang, Shanzhi Li, Ling Shu, Tieqiao Xiao and Taotao Shui
As a main place for student activities on campus, outdoor spaces have positive impacts on students? physical and mental health. Namely, outdoor heat and comfort are of great significance to improve activity quality. Here, four unique outdoor spaces were ...
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