Yijie Zhang

Ms. Yijie Zhang

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Academic Career Length

14Years (2013-Present)

(Calculated once Scilit publication data is synced: current year − year of first publication + 1)

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6 March 2024 in Sustainability
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LZLiang Zhao
Liang Zhao
YZYijie Zhang
Yijie Zhang
YLYiting Li
Yiting Li
ZFZichao Feng
Zichao Feng
YWYuetao Wang
Yuetao Wang
The spatial forms of hill-neighboring blocks and the wind–thermal environment are crucial components of urban planning and urban ecology. Understanding their correlation is significant for creating a healthy community and enhancing the sustainable level of buildings and their systems. Therefore, Jinan, a multi-mountainous city in China, is taken as the research area, and the ideal model of hill-neighboring blocks is built based on categories of all these block types by aerial imagery and a semantic segmentation algorithm. Then, we use the CFD simulation software PHOENICS and the evaluation system weighted by random forest to simulate and assess the wind–thermal environment. Ultimately, the correlations and specific mathematical equations between the spatial form indicators and wind–thermal environment are obtained by a parametric method. The results demonstrate that the interface density on the near-hill side and hill surface roughness are the most related indicators to the overall wind–thermal environment. The variation in block spatial form has the most distinct influence on the proportion of breeze area and PMV. The relationship determined herein can provide strategic recommendations for decision makers for optimizing the outdoor air flow of blocks and enhancing the thermal comfort of pedestrians, which helps to create a healthy and comfortable outdoor environment in multi-mountainous cities.


7 January 2025 in Atmosphere
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YZYijie Zhang
Yijie Zhang
BHBin Huang
Bin Huang
In recent climate-adaptive design strategies, there has been a growing interest in creating healthy and comfortable urban microclimates. However, not enough attention has been paid to the influence of street interface morphology in order to better understand the wind–thermal conditions of various commercial streets within the city and create a sustainable built environment. This research summarizes and categorizes commercial streets according to their functions and types of attributes and then abstracts the ideal models of three types of typical commercial streets to explore the effects of changes in specific morphological parameters on their wind–thermal environments. Firstly, this study selects out design parameters that affect the street interface morphology. Then, it uses the numerical simulation software PHOENICS2019 to simulate and investigate the effects of three types of typical commercial street interface morphology on their wind environment and thermal comfort. The results show that (1) in neighborhood-commercial streets, reducing void ratio and variance of height fluctuations can enhance the average wind speed of the street while reducing average temperature and improving the thermal comfort; (2) in business-office streets, the value of the void ratio is negatively correlated with the wind environment and thermal comfort, while the changes in the variance of height fluctuations and the average aspect ratio are positively correlated; and (3) in comprehensive-commercial streets, the decrease of the void ratio will reduce the average wind speed of its street and increase the average temperature, thus weakening the thermal comfort of pedestrians. In contrast, the variance of height fluctuations as well as the average aspect ratio do not significantly affect its wind–thermal environment. These conclusions from this research provide a theoretical basis and methodological reference for the creation of safer, resilient and sustainable built environments.