Wind environment

In order to make sustainable single houses, it is very important to control the outdoor thermal environment. Therefore, various relaxation methods for the outdoor thermal environment are often planned, e.g. utilizing of the cooling effect of a water face, arrangement of water permeable material, planting trees etc. In this paper, a coupled simulation of CFD and radiation transfer is conducted in order to evaluate the outdoor thermal environment in riverside detached single houses near to Tokyo in Japan.

The three-dimensional wind environment in Lanqiying community of Beijing city, which is complicated due to the dense distribution of the highrise buildings, is investigated by computational fluid dynamics method. The turbulent flow past the buildings is simulated by solving the incompressible Reynolds-averaged Navier-Stokes equations. Both the reverse flow between the buildings and the ecirculation of the wake can be observed. The spectrum analysis of aerodynamics coefficient are successfully obtained and compared with the twodimensional results.