Journal
BUILDING SIMULATION
Volume 14, Issue 5, Pages 1345-1358Publisher
TSINGHUA UNIV PRESS
DOI: 10.1007/s12273-020-0749-4
Keywords
computational fluid dynamics (CFD); real urban morphology; urban boundary layer (UBL); urban canopy model (UCM); wind tunnel experiments
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- Hong Kong (HK) Research Grants Council (RGC) through the Hong Kong Ph.D. Fellowship (HKPF) Scheme
- RGC Theme-based Research Scheme (TRS) [T24-504/17-N]
- RGC Collaborative Research Fund (CRF) [C7064 18G]
- National Natural Science Foundation of China
- Macau Science and Technology Development Joint Fund (NSFC-FDCT) [41861164027]
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Wind tunnel experiments and RANS approaches were used to study the development of the urban boundary layer above Kowloon Peninsula in Hong Kong. The study found that the wind and turbulence characteristics in the UBL over downtown Kowloon are influenced by the wake behind high-rise buildings, with local maxima of turbulence kinetic energy and shear stress found at the roof level of these buildings. Additionally, the urban roughness sublayer was divided into two layers based on the structures of mixing length, effective drag, and dispersive stress, showing differences in characteristics at different heights in the URSL.
Wind tunnel experiment and steady-state Reynolds-averaged Navier-Stokes (RANS) approaches are used to examine the urban boundary layer (UBL) development above Kowloon Peninsula, Hong Kong Special Administrative Region (HKSAR). The detailed urban morphology is resolved by computational fluid dynamics (CFD) and is fabricated by 3D-printing (reduced scale) for wind tunnel experiments. Different from the majority existing results based on idealized, homogeneous urban geometries, it was found that the wind and turbulence in the UBL over downtown Kowloon are characterized by the wake behind several high-rise buildings. In particular, local maxima of turbulence kinetic energy (TKE) and shear stress are found at the roof level of those high-rise buildings. In the downstream region where the flows are already adjusted to the urban surfaces, the urban roughness sublayer (URSL) can be further divided into two layers based on the structures of the mixing length l(m), effective drag D-x and dispersive stress. In the lower URSL (z <= 100 m), l(m) is rather uniform, and the Reynolds stress and dispersive stress are comparable. In the upper URSL (100 m <= z <= 300 m), on the contrary, l(m) is peaked at the mid-height and the magnitude of dispersive stress is smaller than that of the Reynolds stress (< 30%). The effective drag D-x is negligible in the upper URSL.
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