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Heat removal under various wind speeds

Author(s)
Rizwan Ahmed MEMON Department of Mechanical Engineering, Mehran University of Engineering & Technology, Jamshoro, PAKISTAN
Muhammad Aslam UQAILI Department of Electrical Engineering, Mehran University of Engineering & Technology, Jamshoro PAKISTAN
Ashfaque Ahmed HASHMANI Department of Electrical Engineering, Mehran University of Engineering & Technology, Jamshoro, PAKISTAN
Abstract
This paper investigated the impact of velocity variation in wide streets. The building AR (Aspect Ratio) (Street-canyon-width-to-building-height i.e. W/H) has been calculated by varying the width of street canyon. The k-ε turbulence model was applied to ideal street canyons of aspect ratio 0.5, 0.75 and 1.0 while the wind speed was varied from 0.5 to 4.0 m/s. The street canyon aspect ratio 1.0 was obtained by increasing the width of the street two times (i.e. W=1) as much as for AR0.5 (i.e. W=0.5). However, different results obtained from ARI were compared with ARO.5 to analyze the impact of wide streets. Results show that the temperatures reduce with an increase in ambient wind speed. However, the impact of ambient wind speed was comparatively higher in narrow street canyons since temperature reduced by over 1.4 K with an increase of 3.5 m/s in ambient wind speed. On the other hand, in the case of ARI.0 the area weighted average temperature reduced by 1.3 K with an increase of 3.5 m/s in ambient wind speed. It is found that removing heat from narrower street canyons is comparatively difficult. Results show that the temperatures within the target street canyon of ARO.5 with ambient wind speed of 0.5 m/s were around 0.71 K higher than that in ARI.
Publication Details
Page(s) 427-434
DOI DOI not available
Published Journal: Mehran University Research Journal of Engineering and Technology, Volume: 30, Issue: 3, Year: 2011

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