AIJ urban wind environment benchmark cases (A–M)
Collection · 12 parts Benchmark Lab 12 parts
The Architectural Institute of Japan (AIJ) urban wind environment benchmark suite: wind-tunnel and field data for cases A–M, from a single high-rise building and cube arrays to real districts such as Shinjuku and Niigata, many with STL geometry. Widely used to validate CFD for pedestrian-level wind and dispersion.
Access
- Licence
- CC BY 4.0 Free to use and share, including commercially, as long as you credit the creators.
- Size
- 50 MB
How to cite
Ishihara, T., Hibi, K., Tominaga, Y., Kikumoto, H., Okaze, T., Nonomura, Y., Yoshie, R., Tachibana, T., Kondo, H., & Mutou, K. (2025). AIJ urban wind environment benchmark cases (A–M) [Data set]. Zenodo. https://www.urbanfluidmechanics.org/data-portal/aij-urban-wind-environment-benchmark-cases-a-m/
Please also cite the publications below that describe it.
Details
- Resource
- Measurements, Case setup
- Method
- Wind tunnel
- Geometry
- Idealised array, Realistic neighbourhood, Single building
- Topic
- Wind loads & pedestrian wind, Dispersion & air quality
- Quantities
- Velocity, Turbulence statistics, Concentration, Temperature
- Location
- Niigata, Japan · more from Japan
- Year
- 2025
- Creators
- Ishihara, Takeshi; Hibi, Kazuki; Tominaga, Yoshihide; Kikumoto, Hideki; Okaze, Tsubasa; Nonomura, Yoshitami; Yoshie, Ryuichiro; Tachibana, Takumi; Kondo, Hiroaki; Mutou, Katsuhiko
- Institution
- Institute of Science Tokyo; Niigata Institute of Technology; The University of Tokyo; Yamato University; Tokyo Polytechnic University; Wind Engineering Institute
Linked publications
Papers that describe or use this resource.
- Turbulent measurments of the flow field around a high-rise building (1998)
- A study of gust wind speed using a novel unsteady Reynolds-Averaged Navier-Stokes model (2025)
- Comparison of various k-ε models and DSM applied to flow around a high-rise building - report on AIJ cooperative project for CFD prediction of wind environment - (2002)
- AIJ guidelines for practical applications of CFD to pedestrian wind environment around buildings (2008)
- 複合建物モデル周辺気流のCFDベンチマークテスト（その３） (2003)
- Wind Tunnel Experiment and Large Eddy Simulation of Pollutant/Thermal Dispersion in Non-isothermal Turbulent Boundary Layer (2016)
- 都市街区内の非等温流れ場における汚染物質拡散・熱拡散に関する風洞実験とLES (2012)
- Large-eddy simulation of flow and pollutant dispersion in a 3D urban street model located in an unstable boundary layer (2018)
- Comparison between Field Measurement and Wind Tunnel Experiments of Gas Dispersion in an Urban Area and Verification of Similarity Law (2022)
- 都市域における屋外実測と風洞実験による汚染物質拡散予測について (2014)
Parts (12)
- AIJ UWE Benchmark Dataset – Case A (112): Wind Tunnel Experiment for Flow around a 1:1:2 Shape Building Model
- AIJ UWE Benchmark Dataset – Case B (144): Wind Tunnel Experiment for Flow around a 1:4:4 Shape Building Model
- AIJ UWE Benchmark Dataset – Case C (Blocks): Wind Tunnel Experiment for Flow within Simple Building Blocks
- AIJ UWE Benchmark Dataset – Case D (Highrise): Wind Tunnel Experiment for Flow around a High-rise Building in City Blocks
- AIJ UWE Benchmark Dataset – Case E (Niigata): Wind Tunnel Experiment for Flow within an Actual Urban Area in Niigata
- AIJ UWE Benchmark Dataset – Case H (112C): Wind Tunnel Experiment for Flow and Dispersion around a 1:1:2 Shape Building Model
- AIJ UWE Benchmark Dataset – Case I (CubeC): Wind Tunnel Experiment for Flow and Dispersion around a Cubic Building Model
- AIJ UWE Benchmark Dataset – Case J (112CT): Wind Tunnel Experiment for Flow and Dispersion Around a 1:1:2 Shape Building Model under Non-isothermal Conditions
- AIJ UWE Benchmark Dataset – Case K (ArraysC): Wind Tunnel Experiment for Flow and Dispersion within Cube Arrays with a Point-source
- AIJ UWE Benchmark Dataset – Case L (ArraysCT): Wind Tunnel Experiment for Flow and Dispersion around Cube Arrays with a Line-source under Non-isothermal Conditions
- AIJ UWE Benchmark Dataset – Case M (TPU): Wind Tunnel Experiment and Field Observation for Flow and Dispersion within TPU Campus
- AIJ UWE Benchmark Dataset – Case F (Shinjuku): Wind Tunnel Experiment and Field Observation for Flow within an Actual Urban Area in Shinjuku
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