Effects of urban canyons and thermal comfort in the Persian Gulf region

• Main Authors: Dalman, Masoud, Salleh, Elias @ Ilias, Saadatian, Omidreza, Lim, Chin Haw, Sopian, Kamaruzzaman
• Format: Conference or Workshop Item
• Language: English
• Published: IEEE 2012
• Online Access: http://psasir.upm.edu.my/id/eprint/48291/1/Effects%20of%20urban%20canyons%20and%20thermal%20comfort%20in%20the%20Persian%20Gulf%20region.pdf; http://psasir.upm.edu.my/id/eprint/48291/
• Institution: Universiti Putra Malaysia

Accessibility to thermal comfort spaces for citizens and urban outdoor activities could be one of the main goals of urban designers. The objective of this paper is to conduct a comparative study on two different urban fabrics, using thermal comfort and Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD) methods. Res...