The wind environment in furnace cities has attracted considerable research attention. Investigating the impact of suburban residential building arrangements in furnace cities on inter-building wind speed fields is useful and cost-effective for scientifically optimizing layouts. This study simulated 13 wind speed fields across six symmetric and asymmetric building arrangements: linear, inclined, convex, concave, M-shaped, and V-shaped, with varying building offsets and spacing widths. We used the standard k–ε model for simulations through finite element method. Results demonstrated that larger building offsets enhanced inter-building wind speeds, with the concave arrangement most effectively enhanced the wind speed between buildings among the configurations. V-shaped arrangements slightly underperformed concave layouts in wind speed uniformity. Based on the summer wind direction data from Wuhan Tianhe Meteorological Station, we propose two corresponding layouts: concave and V-shaped arrangements, which are conductive to enhancing inter-building wind speed. In practical planning, the orientation of building clusters can be adjusted according to the local wind rose diagram.
Yi et al. (Fri,) studied this question.