Ran Wang , Ziwei Mo , Di Mei , Wai-Chi Cheng , Kangcheng Zhou , Chun-Ho Liu
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The results show that urbanization significantly slowed down wind speeds due to building blockage, expanding low-wind zones and creating localized high-wind areas. Spatial scale played a crucial role in evaluating the wind speed reduction during urbanization. Larger domains (1 km-2 km radii) captured wind speed changes associated with urban development, whereas small domains might either fail to reflect building growth or exaggerate urbanization effects due to high‐rise building effects. Wind direction variability has a more significant impact at smaller scales, especially in areas with tall urban structures. <em>SWLR</em> and <em>BWLR</em> notably increased from 1980 to 2000, with the most significant effects in highly urbanized areas. By 2020, <em>SWLR</em> in the 2-km and 1-km buffer zones reached 42 %-67 %, while <em>BWLR</em> in Shenzhen exceeded 31 % that were nearly double compared with those observed in other urban segments. The analysis reveals that building density (<em>λ<sub>p</sub></em>), building surface coverage ratio (<em>λ<sub>b</sub></em>), and frontal area density (<em>λ<sub>f</sub></em>) strongly correlated with <em>SWLR</em> through a logarithmic function at 1 km-2 km radius scales, but had a weaker relationship with <em>BWLR</em>. 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Assessing scale-dependent urban wind loss patterns: A CFD analysis of realistic urban segments from 1980 to 2020
Quantifying the impact of urbanization on wind speed remains a significant challenge due to the limitations of point-based observation and coarse-resolution mesoscale modeling. This study employed a micro-scale computational fluid dynamics (CFD) method to examine wind patterns around three urban segments within circles of 2-km radius in Shunde, Zhongshan, and Shenzhen, China, across different stages of urbanization from 1980 to 2020. The influences of spatial scales (2-km, 1-km, 0.5-km, 0.3-km, and 0.1-km radii) and wind directions on wind speed were analyzed, and the urbanization effect was assessed using the surface wind loss rate (SWLR) and boundary-layer wind loss rate (BWLR). The results show that urbanization significantly slowed down wind speeds due to building blockage, expanding low-wind zones and creating localized high-wind areas. Spatial scale played a crucial role in evaluating the wind speed reduction during urbanization. Larger domains (1 km-2 km radii) captured wind speed changes associated with urban development, whereas small domains might either fail to reflect building growth or exaggerate urbanization effects due to high‐rise building effects. Wind direction variability has a more significant impact at smaller scales, especially in areas with tall urban structures. SWLR and BWLR notably increased from 1980 to 2000, with the most significant effects in highly urbanized areas. By 2020, SWLR in the 2-km and 1-km buffer zones reached 42 %-67 %, while BWLR in Shenzhen exceeded 31 % that were nearly double compared with those observed in other urban segments. The analysis reveals that building density (λp), building surface coverage ratio (λb), and frontal area density (λf) strongly correlated with SWLR through a logarithmic function at 1 km-2 km radius scales, but had a weaker relationship with BWLR. The findings offer valuable insights into the evolution of wind fields around observation stations in response to changes in building configurations and contribute to more accurate evaluations of urbanization on wind speed.
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Sustainable Cities and Society (SCS) is an international journal that focuses on fundamental and applied research to promote environmentally sustainable and socially resilient cities. The journal welcomes cross-cutting, multi-disciplinary research in various areas, including:
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