Urban aerodynamics : wind engineering for urban planners and designers / prepared by the Task Committee on Urban Aerodynamics of the Technical Council on Wind Engineering of the American Society of Civil Engineers.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

American Society of Civil Engineers. Task Committee on Urban Aerodynamics.

Martin and Margy Meyerson Endowment Fund for the Built Environment.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Wind-pressure.

Tall buildings--Aerodynamics.

Tall buildings.

Structural engineering.

Urban climatology.

Physical Description:

63 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm

Place of Publication:

Reston, Va. : American Society of Civil Engineers, [2011]

Summary:

The booklet identifies professional contributions that wind engineers can make to urban planning and design in collaboration with city governments, urban planners, and designers. It sets out tools and quantitative techniques used by wind engineers in urban aerodynamics, and explains how these are preferable to an intuitive approach. Among the topics are historic considerations of wind in urban planning, pedestrian level winds, human thermal comfort in naturally ventilated spaces, dispersional modeling in boundary layer wind tunnels, urban wind power, quantifying wind effects, and computational fluid dynamics. Annotation ©2011 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Martin and Margy Meyerson Endowment Fund for the Built Environment.

ISBN:

0784411794

9780784411797

OCLC:

742305915

Publisher Number:

99948399054