Aerodynamics of buildings, cities
and in sports
Lecture at the University of Flanders, Belgium (Dutch spoken with English subtitles): How to cycle faster without extra effort?
https://twitter.com/UCI_cycling/status/1442084101507493891
 Department of the Built Environment
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Prof.dr.ir. Bert Blocken (Civil Engineer - MSc, PhD) Chair of Urban Physics & Building Physics Building Physics and Services DEPARTMENT OF THE BUILT ENVIRONMENT Eindhoven University of Technology THE NETHERLANDS __ Building Physics Section DEPARTMENT OF CIVIL ENGINEERING KU Leuven BELGIUM urban physics urban physics |
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Wind tunnel test of Dutch World Champion Hand Bike Tim de Vries
Wind tunnel test of team time trial LottoNL-Jumbo
Wind tunnel test of female rider Puck Moonen
Movie: CFD simulation: contours of wind speed for 1 m distance between cyclist and following motorcycle at 54 km/h (Blocken, Toparlar, Andrianne 2016)
Movie: CFD simulation: contours of pressure coefficient for 1 m distance between cyclist and following motorcycle at 54 km/h (Blocken, Toparlar, Andrianne 2016)
CFD simulation: contours of pressure coefficient for 1 m distance between cyclist and following motorcycle at 54 km/h (Blocken, Toparlar, Andrianne 2016)
Cyclist models - and their team sponsors (Blocken, Toparlar, Andrianne 2016)
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Images:
Study of
the
cross-ventilation
of a
single-zone
building
including
contaminant
dispersion
(Tominaga
&
Blocken
2015)
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Images:
Study of
the
fluid
dynamics
of plane
impinging
jets -
with
application
for air
curtains
(Khayrullina,
van
Hooff,
Blocken,
van
Heijst
2014)
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Images: Wind
study for
Cruise
Terminal
Port of
Rotterdam. (Janssen,
Blocken, Van
Wijhe 2015)
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Images: Heat wave
analysis for
Bergpolder Zuid
District in
Rotterdam. (Toparlar
et al. 2015)
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Images: Wind comfort in Park
Tower Antwerp, Flanders,
Belgium. (Montazeri
et al. 2013)
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Images: Wind conditions by
high-speed train on
underground railway
platforms. (Khayrullina
et al. 2015)
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Images: Computational grid for stadium ventilation. (Van Hooff, Blocken 2013)
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Images: Eindhoven
city center CFD model (Papadopoulos,
Janssen, Blocken 2013)
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Images: CFD simulation of
wind conditions for helicopter landing operations on the Island
Frontier Intervention Vessel (Blocken,
Janssen 2012)
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Images: CFD simulation of wind
conditions in the Port of Rotterdam (Janssen,
Blocken, Van Wijhe 2012)
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Images: CFD simulation of
cross-ventilation and analysis of physical and numerical diffusion effects
(Ramponi & Blocken 2012)
Click here to read more.
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Images: CFD analysis of natural ventilation of the Amsterdam ArenA football stadium, The Netherlands (van Hooff & Blocken 2009). Click here to read more.
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Images: CFD analysis of wind
conditions at the campus of Eindhoven University of Technology (Janssen,
van Hooff, Blocken 2010)
Click here
to read more.
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Images: Left: Q-Flex LNG carrier. Right: Sea canal Ria de Ferrol, Galicia, Spain. CFD simulations of wind environmental conditions for the carriers (Blocken 2009). Click here to read more.
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Images: CFD analysis of gas
dispersion in downtown Montreal, Canada (Gousseau,
Blocken, Stathopoulos, van Heijst 2010)
