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Pedestrian wind and wind-load datasets for buildings
Data on how wind interacts with buildings: surface pressure coefficients on isolated and surrounded buildings, wind speeds at pedestrian level around towers and in dense districts, and the flow fields that produce them. Most come from boundary-layer wind tunnels and large-eddy simulations, and many were designed as validation cases for wind-comfort and cladding-load assessments.
- 36 resources
- 2 field
- 18 lab
- 16 simulation
- 4 benchmarks
All 36 resources, largest first
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Large-eddy simulations of turbulent airflow over 314 realistic urban neighbourhoods from 62 cities in 20 countries, with plan-area densities from 0.05 to 0.75 and several wind directions. Provides canopy-averaged statistics and flow fields, which are useful for canopy parameterisation, model validation and machine learning of urban wind.
Simulation Simulation outputGeometry LES
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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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Precursor LES turbulent inflow boundary conditions for AIJ actual-urban benchmark case.
Benchmark Simulation Simulation outputCase setup LES
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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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URANS cross-comparison on the AIJ Niigata case against wind-tunnel data.
Benchmark Simulation Simulation outputCase setup RANS
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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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Wind tunnel pressure maps for non-standard shapes and structures. Useful for wind load studies.
Lab Measurements Wind tunnel
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Source files, data and metadata of ExaQUte simulations of turbulent flow around rectangular bodies and the CAARC high-rise building with stochastic inlets. Useful as wind-engineering CFD case setups and output.
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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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Dataset of microscale atmospheric flow simulations around randomly generated urban geometries for several stability classes. Useful for training and testing ML surrogates of urban flow.
Simulation Simulation output RANSML / surrogate
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Building-resolved LES wind fields for Beijing, Shanghai, Guangzhou, Shenzhen and Hong Kong (U3DWind)
720 time-mean lattice-Boltzmann LES cases at 10 m resolution, 144 per city, spanning 16 wind directions, 3 reference speeds and 3 seasonal profiles, with 3D mean velocity and TKE plus building, terrain and footprint geometry. Very large (about 25 TB).
Simulation Simulation outputGeometry LES
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Input geometries and wind pressure coefficient results from CpSimulator, a cloud-based platform for predicting Cp on buildings. Useful for natural ventilation and wind-load studies.
Simulation GeometrySimulation outputSoftware & tools RANS
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41 PALM NetCDF files of building-resolved wind fields for Camden, London, for scientific machine learning.
Simulation Simulation output LESML / surrogate
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Open-source Python package for fast urban wind-field prediction from geometry.
Simulation Software & tools ML / surrogate
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Field and CFD data for physics-informed surrogate modelling of urban wind under sparse measurements.
Field MeasurementsSimulation output RANSML / surrogate
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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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Interactive D3Q19 lattice-Boltzmann wind analysis tool for 3D urban context.
Simulation Software & tools LES
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Paper release of an agentic AI workflow that automates CFD wind simulations for buildings and cities. Useful for automated case setup.
Simulation Software & tools ML / surrogate
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Deep learning model code predicting 3D wind speed fields in cities from building geometry.
Simulation Software & tools ML / surrogate
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Python code for regression and machine-learning models predicting area-averaged external pressure coefficients on low-rise buildings. Useful for wind-load surrogates.
Simulation Software & tools ML / surrogate
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Data for a validated comparison of lattice-Boltzmann and finite-volume LES for large urban flow simulations.
Simulation Simulation output LES
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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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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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UrbanFlowNet-MFSS, a physics-regularised multi-fidelity surrogate for urban flow reconstruction.
Simulation Software & tools ML / surrogate
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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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Territory-wide modelled wind climate on a 500 m grid: annual, summer and winter directional wind frequencies and speeds at several heights, used to set inflow conditions for Hong Kong's statutory wind-tunnel and CFD air ventilation assessments.
Simulation Simulation output Mesoscale model
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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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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