 Department of the Built Environment Eindhoven Energy Institute Eindhoven Multiscale Institute
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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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Urban physics ResearcherID on ISI Web of Knowledge: urban physics
Publication: Open Access on Science Direct:
http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0167610516302306
Disclaimer: this work and its announcement are not intended as criticism, neither to cyclists and the teams, nor to motorcycle riders, nor to the International Cycling Union (UCI). It is intended to help in persuading the UCI to change its rules and enforce minimum distances between cyclists and in-race motorcycles.
Image: Wind tunnel test of influence of following motorcycle on cyclist drag (Blocken, Toparlar, Andrianne 2016)
Image: Wind tunnel test of influence of following motorcycle on cyclist drag (Blocken, Toparlar, Andrianne 2016)
Image: Wind tunnel test of influence of following motorcycle on cyclist drag (Blocken, Toparlar, Andrianne 2016)
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)
CFD simulation: contours of surface pressure coefficient for 1 m distance between cyclist and following motorcycle at 54 km/h (Blocken, Toparlar, Andrianne 2016)
CFD simulation: contours of surface pressure coefficient for 1 m distance between cyclist and following motorcycle at 54 km/h (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: Cyclist aerodynamics. (Blocken,
Defraeye, Koninckx, Carmeliet, Hespel 2012)
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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)
