Open AccessNursing Home Wind Environment Evaluation in Northern China - A Case Study in Dezhou
Author(s) -
Xuwei Ni
Publication year - 2021
Publication title -
iop conference series. earth and environmental science
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.179
H-Index - 26
eISSN - 1755-1307
pISSN - 1755-1315
DOI - 10.1088/1755-1315/728/1/012013
Subject(s) - wind speed , environmental science , meteorology , wind direction , nursing homes , china , wind power , shadow (psychology) , range (aeronautics) , medicine , geography , nursing , engineering , psychology , archaeology , aerospace engineering , electrical engineering , psychotherapist
As the rapid development of institution-based care for the elderly people, the nursing home’s outdoor wind environment research has become an important topic including wind potential evaluation as well as wind comfort analysis. In this study, the wind environment of a nursing home located in Dezhou, northern China has been evaluated quantitatively according to CFD methods. The parameters related to the wind environment including average wind velocity, wind velocity variation range and area proportion of shadow wind, comfort wind and risky wind regions has been calculated. Results showed the annual average wind velocity of the nursing home’s outdoor environment was 1.69m/s and its variation range was 40.41%. The area proportions of shadow wind, comfort wind and risky wind regions were 23.00%, 75.35% and 1.65%. This indicated that the wind environment optimization of the nursing home should be focused on decreasing the shadow wind regions and dismiss the risky wind regions, and relative optimization suggestions were proposed.