Study of pedestrian comfort of residential development adjacent to open sea space

Abstract

Residential development located near the sea zone has a number of features that should be taken into account when designing a comfortable urban environment, such as wind regime. In this paper, the assessment of residential development in the city of Vladivostok, which has a special wind regime, was performed using SFD modeling, the obtained results were compared with the data of field observations, after which a number of measures were proposed to improve the pedestrian comfort of the development near the open sea area. Numerical modeling was performed in the ANSYS CFX software package, the parameters of the computational grid and boundary conditions are given. Assessment of pedestrian comfort is carried out. Further on the territory under consideration there are full-scale measurements of wind speed with anemometer, the results of full-scale measurements are comparable with the results of numerical modeling. To improve the pedestrian comfort in the residential complex, it is proposed to make changes in the geometry of the roof, after which numerical simulation of the modified model is performed. It is found that the improved pedestrian comfort indicators are significantly improved, which indicates the feasibility of making changes in the architectural and planning solution of the residential complex.