Wind tunnel pressure measurements on the Aylesbury low-rise housing estate.< Part 1 Simulation design and mean pressures.

Describes the first stage of an investigation designed to simulate in a wind tunnel the full scale wind pressure measurements made by the Building Research Establishment on the Aylesbury test house. Describes in detail the wind tunnel, instrumentation, measurement techniques and experimental procedures. Discusses the problems of simulating natural wind.< Discusses the results of measurements of mean pressure coefficients. Compares results with full scale measurements and results of a wind tunnel simulation made at the University of Bristol. Concludes that disparities in mean pressure data are caused by the difficulty in relating a chosen pressure datum level from one experiment to another. Finds agreement between full scale and wind tunnel data is encouraging. Comments that there is consistent disagreement near upstream sharp corners.