Print Email Facebook Twitter Urban Morphological Analysis for Wind Potential Title Urban Morphological Analysis for Wind Potential Author de Jongh, Wessel (TU Delft Architecture and the Built Environment) Contributor Garcia Sanchez, C. (mentor) Dukai, B. (mentor) Maiullari, D. (graduation committee) Cuperus, Y.J. (graduation committee) Degree granting institution Delft University of Technology Programme Geomatics Date 2021-07-02 Abstract Wind has a profound impact on the meteorological and environmental conditions in cities. And so, by understanding wind flow behaviour within the urban environment, we can use the increasingly available open data to contribute to the design of healthy cities. This Master’s thesis presents a methodology to compute urban morphological parameters and its effect on potential wind velocity. The proposed method may serve as an complementary method to Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD) simulation or scaled wind tunnel tests. The research question in this thesis is: Can we use urban morphology to automatically calculate potential increase in wind velocity? To answer this, first an introduction to wind flows in the urban environmentis presented. Then, several methodologies are presented to compute the urban morphological parameters, such as the Urban Canyon, wind- or leeward facade, Angle of Attack and terrain roughness length. The method relies on the use of a Voronoidiagram, with cells describing the morphology. After, the urban morphological parameters are related to potential wind velocity through a scoring method. Using two meteorological stations inside the area of interest, the mean wind velocity is compared to the scores. The result show that both stations show a higher mean wind velocity for higher scores. However, more research is necessary to validate this outcome and a recommendation is given to compare the result of this thesis to a CFD simulation. Subject Urban MorphologyVoronoiWind VelocityWind potentialOpen DataUrban Canyon To reference this document use: http://resolver.tudelft.nl/uuid:fdbff288-fede-4796-9972-54627af0db77 Part of collection Student theses Document type master thesis Rights © 2021 Wessel de Jongh Files PDF p5_mscgeomatics_wesseldejongh.pdf 28.39 MB PDF mscgeomatics_thesispresen ... wessel.pdf 10.72 MB Close viewer /islandora/object/uuid:fdbff288-fede-4796-9972-54627af0db77/datastream/OBJ1/view