Are Green Walls Better Options than Green Roofs for Mitigating PM10 Pollution? CFD Simulations in Urban Street Canyons

作者：Qin, Hongqiao; Hong, Bo^*; Jiang, Runsheng

来源：Sustainability, 2018, 10(8): 2833.

DOI：10.3390/su10082833

• green roofs
• green walls
• computational fluid dynamics
• PM10
• greenery coverage
• street canyon

To examine the effect of green roofs (GRs) and green walls (GWs) on coarse particle (PM10) dispersion in urban street canyons, a computational fluid dynamics (CFD) simulation was conducted with a Reynolds-averaged Navier-Stokes (RANS) model and a revised generalized drift flux model. Simulations were performed with different aspect ratios (H/W = 0.5, 1.0, and 2.0), greenery coverage areas (S = 300, 600, and 900 m(2)), and leaf area densities (LADs = 1.0, 3.5, 6.0 m(2)/m(3)). Results indicate that: (1) GRs and GWs all had the reduction ability of PM10 at the pedestrian level; (2) Averaged concentrations of PM10 in GWs and GRs varied little as LAD changed in H/W = 0.5 and 1.0. When H/W = 2.0, the aerodynamic effects of GRs increased since airflow was enhanced within street canyons, resulting in the increasing concentrations in GRs compared with non-greening scenarios; (3) Given equal greenery coverage area and aspect ratio, GWs are more effective in reducing street-canyon PM10, and the averaged concentrations declined with increasing LADs and greenery coverage areas, especially the H/W; (4) At the pedestrian level, the reduction ratio of GRs is greater than that of GWs with the maximum value of 17.1% for H/W = 0.5. However, where H/W = 1.0 and 2.0, the concentrations within GWs are lower than GRs, with maximum reduction ratios of 29.3% and 43.8%, respectively.

• 出版日期2018-8
• 单位西北农林科技大学