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Wind-tunnel and water-flume datasets for urban flow
Physical-model experiments on flow and dispersion around scaled buildings and city models, made in atmospheric boundary-layer wind tunnels and water flumes. Expect PIV and hot-wire velocity data, pressure coefficients and tracer concentrations measured under controlled inflow conditions; many are standard validation cases for CFD.
- 37 resources
- 6 field
- 31 lab
- 9 benchmarks
All 37 resources, largest first
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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.
Collection · 12 parts Benchmark Lab MeasurementsCase setup Wind tunnel
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Boundary-layer wind tunnel surface pressure measurements on parametric low-rise prismatic buildings. Useful for wind load studies and model validation.
Collection · 4 parts Lab Measurements Wind tunnel
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WindEEE wind-field and aerodynamic pressure data for a CAARC high-rise building in atmospheric boundary layer and downburst-like flows. Useful for wind-load validation.
Collection · 3 parts Lab Measurements Wind tunnel
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Non-stationary pressure and velocity measurements on a low-rise duo-pitch building model in the WindEEE Dome under ABL, downburst and combined winds. Useful for wind-load studies of non-synoptic winds.
Collection · 2 parts Lab Measurements Wind tunnel
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Wind-tunnel tests of a selected area of Benidorm.
Collection · 2 parts Lab MeasurementsGeometry Wind tunnel
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Full-scale surface pressure and velocity measurements on the 6 m Silsoe cube in natural wind, with wind-tunnel comparisons. Used as the CWE2000 validation case for CFD; time series and compiled means and variances are available.
Benchmark Field MeasurementsCase setup Wind tunnel
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1:400 wind-tunnel model with uniform and non-uniform roof heights at 90° and 45° wind: LDA velocities and fast-FID concentrations quantifying pollutant exchange through canyon tops and lateral openings, packaged as a CFD validation case.
Benchmark Lab Measurements Wind tunnel
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Time-resolved wind-tunnel velocity data built to validate LES: three approach boundary layers, flow and puff dispersion in a cube array, and the 1:225 idealised Central-European city Michelstadt with flat or slanted roofs.
Benchmark Lab Measurements Wind tunnel
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A real-city SF6 field release sampled at 20 detectors, plus wind-tunnel pedestrian-level concentration time series for continuous and puff releases in a model of the same downtown.
Benchmark Field Measurements Wind tunnel
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Flow and concentration data in the 1:225 Michelstadt model for seven ground-level release scenarios, two wind directions, continuous and puff releases; the blind-test benchmark for emergency-response dispersion models.
Benchmark Lab Measurements Wind tunnel
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Hamburg wind-tunnel replica of the Mock Urban Setting Test container array, with flow statistics and dispersion; the main validation case of the COST 732 CFD best-practice guideline.
Benchmark Lab Measurements Wind tunnel
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Wind tunnel pressure maps for non-standard shapes and structures. Useful for wind load studies.
Lab Measurements Wind tunnel
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Wind-tunnel flow and dispersion around single buildings, street canyons and building arrays (CEDVAL)
The classic Hamburg validation database of wind-tunnel flow and concentration data with fully documented boundary conditions, for isolated obstacles, street canyons and obstacle arrays.
Benchmark Lab Measurements Wind tunnel
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Hamburg wind-tunnel model of the Joint Urban 2003 area of Oklahoma City, used in COST 732; the openly obtainable counterpart to the Joint Urban 2003 field data, whose archive is offline.
Benchmark Lab Measurements Wind tunnel
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High-resolution wind tunnel pressure data for a high-rise building at Politecnico di Milano. Useful for wind load studies.
Lab Measurements Wind tunnel
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Part I of wind-tunnel flow measurements in a 1:200 model of part of Southwark, London, examining tall buildings and height variability. Useful for validating urban flow models.
Collection · 2 parts Lab Measurements Wind tunnel
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PIV and LDV wind tunnel measurements of flow past a vegetated street canyon from TWEET-IE twin test 1. Useful for validating vegetation in urban flow models.
Collection · 2 parts Lab Measurements Wind tunnel
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Naphthalene sublimation measurements in a wind tunnel street canyon model from Reading, giving scalar transfer in urban canyons.
Collection · 3 parts Field Measurements Wind tunnel
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Mean wind pressure data for C-plan buildings with varying slot width and wing length. Useful for wind load studies.
Lab Measurements Wind tunnel
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Experimental and CFD pressure coefficients on facades and roofs for detailed and simplified building geometries.
Lab MeasurementsSimulation output Wind tunnelRANS
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Experimental data on transient aerodynamics and wind loads on low-rise structures under non-synoptic winds from ERIES TRANSWindS. Useful for wind engineering.
Lab Measurements Wind tunnel
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Cobra probe wind-tunnel measurements and LES of flow over downtown Montreal.
Lab MeasurementsSimulation output Wind tunnelLES
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Wind tunnel measurements of thunderstorm-induced loads on tall buildings with synoptic and thunderstorm wind profiles. Useful for wind engineering studies.
Lab Measurements Wind tunnel
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Concentration and velocity measurements in the Ecole Centrale de Lyon wind tunnel for urban geometries with street trees.
Lab Measurements Wind tunnel
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Wind tunnel measurements of rooftop wind environment of an isolated building for urban air mobility safety. Useful for validating rooftop flow models.
Lab Measurements Wind tunnel
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Wind tunnel and CFD data for pedestrian wind comfort around realistic university campus buildings. Useful for validating pedestrian wind CFD.
Lab MeasurementsSimulation output Wind tunnelRANS
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Wind tunnel pressure coefficient database for three H-shaped and low-rise buildings. Useful for wind load and CFD validation.
Lab Measurements Wind tunnel
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Experimental data on a roof-mounted horizontal-axis wind turbine in an idealised urban boundary layer. Useful for rooftop flow validation.
Lab Measurements Wind tunnel
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Stereo PIV and surface pressure measurements around an idealised cubic building with and without vertical openings, under high- and low-shear boundary-layer inflow. Useful for validating near-building flow and ventilation simulations.
Lab Measurements Wind tunnel
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2D PIV wind-tunnel data of turbulent boundary layers over twelve urban roughnesses with different frontal and plan solidities. Useful for studying turbulence statistics and parameterising urban roughness.
Lab Measurements Wind tunnel
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Wind-tunnel measurements of flow and dispersion over an idealised urban street system, from the DIPLOS project. Useful for validating LES and DNS of urban dispersion.
Lab Measurements Wind tunnel
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Field and physical-model measurements of wind-driven air infiltration into a building near the DAPPLE site in London. Useful for studying how the urban environment affects building ventilation.
Field Measurements Wind tunnel
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95 boundary-layer wind-tunnel datasets from the University of Western Ontario with pressure-tap time series on gable-roofed low-rise building models in several terrains, as self-documenting HDF files.
Lab Measurements Wind tunnel
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Wind-tunnel measurements of near-wall flow over urban-like roughness, including form drag and roughness sublayer behaviour. Useful for rough-wall boundary-layer studies and surface parameterisation.
Lab Measurements Wind tunnel
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Physical-model data on flow and concentration for idealised urban geometries, from a project on rapid sensor deployment after outdoor chemical releases. Useful for dispersion and sensor-placement studies.
Lab Measurements Wind tunnel
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Project on human-centred building design combining field, CFD and physical-model studies of urban flow and ventilation. Data release is pending; contact the project for access.
Field MeasurementsSimulation output Wind tunnel
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Project developing integrated models and decision-support tools for city design for natural ventilation and air quality, with CFD, field and physical-model work. Full data release is pending.
Field MeasurementsSimulation outputSoftware & tools Wind tunnel