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LES case study on pedestrian level ventilation in two neighbourhoods in Hong Kong

Letzel, M.O. and Helmke, C. and Ng, E. and An, X. and Lai, A. and Raasch, S. (2012) LES case study on pedestrian level ventilation in two neighbourhoods in Hong Kong. Meteorologische Zeitschrift, 21 (6). pp. 575-589.

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Abstract

Hong Kong is one of the most densely built-up and populated cities in the world. An adequate air ventilation at pedestrian level would ease the thermal stress in its humid subtropical climate, but the high-density city severely reduces the natural ventilation. This case study investigates pedestrian level ventilation in two neighbourhoods in Kowloon, downtown Hong Kong using the parallelized large-eddy-simulation (LES) model PALM. The LES technique is chosen here for a city quarter scale pedestrian comfort study despite of its high computational cost. The aims of the paper are a) to get a comprehensive overview of pedestrian level ventilation and a better understanding of the ventilation processes in downtown Hong Kong, b) to test the LES technique on this urban scale compared to the wind tunnel and c) to investigate how numerical/physical parameters influence ventilation. This case study is restricted to neutral stratification in order to allow a direct comparison with the wind tunnel. A sensitivity study quantifies the dependence of site-averaged ventilation on numerical and physical parameters and determines an appropriate urban LES set-up for two 1 km2 neighbourhoods in Kowloon (Tsim Sha Tsui, Mong Kok) that are investigated for prevailing E and SW wind. The results reveal the critical dependence of ventilation on the urban morphology. Air paths, street orientations, ground coverage, sites fronting the water, inter connectivity of spaces, building podium size and building heights can all affect the pedestrian wind environment. Isolated tall buildings may have a pronounced impact on ventilation both locally and downstream.

Item Type:Article
Uncontrolled Keywords:urban large-eddy simulation • high-density city • wind environment • pedestrian level ventilation • hong kong
Subjects:Mathematical and Computer Sciences > Mathematics > Applied Mathematics
ID Code:1383
Deposited By: Ulrike Eickers
Deposited On:21 Feb 2014 11:59
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