high-rise buildings versus outdoor thermal environment in chongqing重庆高层建筑与室外热环境.pdfVIP

Sensors 2007, 7, 2183-2200 sensors ISSN 1424-8220 © 2007 by MDPI /sensors Full Research Paper High-Rise Buildings versus Outdoor Thermal Environment in Chongqing Jun Lu 1, Jin-hua Chen 2,*, Ying Tang 3 Yuan Feng 4 and Jin-sha Wang 4 1 Key Laboratory of the Three Gorges Reservoir Region’s Eco-Environment, Chongqing University, Chongqing , 400045, China; E-mail: lujun66@ 2 Faculty of Urban Construction and Environmental Engineering, Chongqing University, Chongqing, 40045, China; E-mail: everflower_803@ 3 Chongqing Steel Institute of Design, Chongqing, 40045, China 4 JIZHUNFANGZHONG Architectural Design Associate, Chengdu, 610055, China * Author to whom correspondence should be addressed. Received: 30 July 2007 / Accepted: 27 September 2007 / Published: 11 October 2007 Abstract: This paper gives a brief description of the over quick urbanization since Chongqing, one of the biggest cities in China, has been a municipality directly under the Central Government in 1997, excessive development and exceeding increase of high-rise buildings because of its special geographical position which finally leads to the worsening of the urban outdoor thermal environment. Then, this paper makes a bright balance to the field measurement and simulated results of the wind speed field, temperature field of one multifunctional high-rise building in Chongqing university located in the city center, and the contrasted results validate the correctness of CFD in the outdoor thermal environmental simulation, expose the disad