URBAN PHYSICS &
ENVIRONMENTAL WIND ENGINEERING



Department of the Built Environment

Eindhoven Energy Institute
Eindhoven Multiscale Institute
Bert Blocken, PhD, MSc
Chair of Urban Physics and Building Physics

Building Physics and Services
Department of the Built Environment
Eindhoven University of Technology
The Netherlands
   
 

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Images: CFD simulation (LES) of one of the Raywaver Helical Vertical Axis Wind Turbine Rotors (Blocken, van Wagtendonk, et al. - Raywaver-TU/e research team 2013).


Images: Eindhoven city center CFD model (Papadopoulos, Janssen, Blocken 2013).
 


Images: CFD simulation of wind conditions for helicopter landing operations on the Island Frontier Intervention Vessel (Blocken, Janssen 2012).


Images: CFD simulation of wind conditions in the Port of Rotterdam (Janssen, Blocken, Van Wijhe 2012).


Images: CFD simulation of cross-ventilation and analysis of physical and numerical diffusion effects  (Ramponi & Blocken 2012).
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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.


Images: CFD analysis of wind conditions at the campus of Eindhoven University of Technology (Janssen, van Hooff, Blocken 2010).
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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.


Images: Cyclist aerodynamics. From left to right: Wind tunnel testing; 3D laser scan; Part of the 3D computational grid; Large Eddy Simulation of wind flow,
illustrated by wind speed contours in a vertical cross-section (
Koninckx, Defraeye, Blocken, Hespel, Carmeliet 2009). Click here to read more.


Images: CFD analysis of gas dispersion in downtown Montreal, Canada (Gousseau, Blocken, Stathopoulos, van Heijst 2010).


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Last updated: July 14, 2012 - Bert Blocken