Numerical investigations of wind and thermal environment in 2D scaled street canyons with various aspect ratios and solar wall heating

Investigation of interunit dispersion in 2D street canyons: A scaled outdoor experiment

(2020) Yuwei Dai et al.   BUILDING AND ENVIRONMENT

To be resubmitted to building and environment 2020 The influence of aspect ratios and solar heating on flow and ventilation in 2D street canyons by scaled outdoor experiments

(2020) Guanwen Chen et al.   BUILDING AND ENVIRONMENT

Scaled outdoor experimental studies of urban thermal environment in street canyon models with various aspect ratios and thermal storage

(2020) Guanwen Chen et al.   SCIENCE OF THE TOTAL ENVIRONMENT

Numerical investigations of Re-independence and influence of wall heating on flow characteristics and ventilation in full-scale 2D street canyons

(2020) Hongyu Yang et al.   BUILDING AND ENVIRONMENT

Are Aircraft Acceleration-induced Body Forces Effective on Contaminant Dispersion in Passenger Aircraft Cabins?

(2019) Hossam A. Elmaghraby et al.   Science and Technology for the Built Environment

A review of mitigating strategies to improve the thermal environment and thermal comfort in urban outdoor spaces

(2019) Dayi Lai et al.   SCIENCE OF THE TOTAL ENVIRONMENT

Using wearable sensors to assess how a heatwave affects individual heat exposure, perceptions, and adaption methods

(2019) Alisa L. Hass et al.   INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF BIOMETEOROLOGY

Magnitude of urban heat islands largely explained by climate and population

(2019) Gabriele Manoli et al.   NATURE

CFD simulation of urban microclimate: Validation using high-resolution field measurements

(2019) Nestoras Antoniou et al.   SCIENCE OF THE TOTAL ENVIRONMENT

Review on Numerical Simulation of Airflow and Pollutant Dispersion in Urban Street Canyons under Natural Background Wind Condition

(2018) Yunwei Zhang et al.   Aerosol and Air Quality Research

Evaluation of computational and physical parameters influencing CFD simulations of pollutant dispersion in building arrays

(2018) Yuwei Dai et al.   BUILDING AND ENVIRONMENT

A wind tunnel study on three-dimensional buoyant flows in street canyons with different roof shapes and building lengths

(2018) Jonas Allegrini   BUILDING AND ENVIRONMENT

Flows across high aspect ratio street canyons: Reynolds number independence revisited

(2018) Lup Wai Chew et al.   ENVIRONMENTAL FLUID MECHANICS

Flow and temperature dynamics in an urban canyon under a comprehensive set of wind directions, wind speeds, and thermal stability conditions

(2018) A. A. Aliabadi et al.   ENVIRONMENTAL FLUID MECHANICS

Numerical coupling model to compute the microclimate parameters inside a street canyon

(2018) Khaled Athamena et al.   SOLAR ENERGY

LES over RANS in building simulation for outdoor and indoor applications: A foregone conclusion?

(2018) Bert Blocken   Building Simulation

Buoyant flows in street canyons: Comparison of RANS and LES at reduced and full scales

(2018) Lup Wai Chew et al.   BUILDING AND ENVIRONMENT

A Very Large-Eddy Simulation (VLES) model for the investigation of the neutral atmospheric boundary layer

(2018) Amir A. Aliabadi et al.   JOURNAL OF WIND ENGINEERING AND INDUSTRIAL AERODYNAMICS

Impact of indoor-outdoor temperature differences on dispersion of gaseous pollutant and particles in idealized street canyons with and without viaduct settings

(2018) Jian Hang et al.   Building Simulation

Numerical evaluations of urban design technique to reduce vehicular personal intake fraction in deep street canyons

(2018) Keer Zhang et al.   SCIENCE OF THE TOTAL ENVIRONMENT

Airborne pollutant dilution inside the deep street canyons subjecting to thermal buoyancy driven flows: Effects of representative urban skylines

(2018) Shuo-Jun Mei et al.   BUILDING AND ENVIRONMENT

The influence of street layouts and viaduct settings on daily carbon monoxide exposure and intake fraction in idealized urban canyons

(2017) Jian Hang et al.   ENVIRONMENTAL POLLUTION

A review on the CFD analysis of urban microclimate

(2017) Y. Toparlar et al.   RENEWABLE & SUSTAINABLE ENERGY REVIEWS

Numerical investigations of flow and passive pollutant exposure in high-rise deep street canyons with various street aspect ratios and viaduct settings

(2017) Lejian He et al.   SCIENCE OF THE TOTAL ENVIRONMENT

Global risk of deadly heat

(2017) Camilo Mora et al.   Nature Climate Change

Ventilation strategies and air quality management in passenger aircraft cabins: A review of experimental approaches and numerical simulations

(2017) Hossam A. Elmaghraby et al.   Science and Technology for the Built Environment

Relating microclimate, human thermal comfort and health during heat waves: An analysis of heat island mitigation strategies through a case study in an urban outdoor environment

(2017) Ferdinando Salata et al.   Sustainable Cities and Society

Natural convection flows along a 16-storey high-rise building

(2016) Yifan Fan et al.   BUILDING AND ENVIRONMENT

Wind-tunnel measurements for thermal effects on the air flow and pollutant dispersion through different scale urban areas

(2016) Peng-Yi Cui et al.   BUILDING AND ENVIRONMENT

Pedestrian-level wind conditions around buildings: Review of wind-tunnel and CFD techniques and their accuracy for wind comfort assessment

(2016) B. Blocken et al.   BUILDING AND ENVIRONMENT

Realistic solar heating in urban areas: Air exchange and street-canyon ventilation

(2016) N. Nazarian et al.   BUILDING AND ENVIRONMENT

Numerical investigation of wind-driven natural ventilation performance in a multi-storey hospital by coupling indoor and outdoor airflow

(2016) Ruiqiu Jin et al.   INDOOR AND BUILT ENVIRONMENT

Quality and reliability of LES of convective scalar transfer at high Reynolds numbers

(2016) Qi Li et al.   INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF HEAT AND MASS TRANSFER

CFD simulation and validation of urban microclimate: A case study for Bergpolder Zuid, Rotterdam

(2015) Y. Toparlar et al.   BUILDING AND ENVIRONMENT

Computational Fluid Dynamics for urban physics: Importance, scales, possibilities, limitations and ten tips and tricks towards accurate and reliable simulations

(2015) Bert Blocken   BUILDING AND ENVIRONMENT

City breathability in medium density urban-like geometries evaluated through the pollutant transport rate and the net escape velocity

(2015) Jian Hang et al.   BUILDING AND ENVIRONMENT

The impact of building density and building height heterogeneity on average urban albedo and street surface temperature

(2015) Xinyan Yang et al.   BUILDING AND ENVIRONMENT

Numerical studies of the outdoor wind environment and thermal comfort at pedestrian level in housing blocks with different building layout patterns and trees arrangement

(2015) Bo Hong et al.   RENEWABLE ENERGY

A CFD modeling study in an urban street canyon for ultrafine particles and population exposure: The intake fraction approach

(2015) George Habilomatis et al.   SCIENCE OF THE TOTAL ENVIRONMENT

Quantitative ventilation assessments of idealized urban canopy layers with various urban layouts and the same building packing density

(2014) Man Lin et al.   BUILDING AND ENVIRONMENT

Conditions for thermal circulation in urban street canyons

(2014) Ann Dallman et al.   BUILDING AND ENVIRONMENT

Strong contributions of local background climate to urban heat islands

(2014) Lei Zhao et al.   NATURE

CFD simulation of near-field pollutant dispersion in the urban environment: A review of current modeling techniques

(2013) Yoshihide Tominaga et al.   ATMOSPHERIC ENVIRONMENT

Improving air quality in high-density cities by understanding the relationship between air pollutant dispersion and urban morphologies

(2013) Chao Yuan et al.   BUILDING AND ENVIRONMENT

Buoyant flows in street canyons: Validation of CFD simulations with wind tunnel measurements

(2013) Jonas Allegrini et al.   BUILDING AND ENVIRONMENT

Numerical simulation of convective heat transfer coefficients at the external surfaces of building arrays immersed in a turbulent boundary layer

(2013) Jiying Liu et al.   INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF HEAT AND MASS TRANSFER

Effects of differential wall heating in street canyons on dispersion and ventilation characteristics of a passive scalar

(2012) Xiaoming Cai   ATMOSPHERIC ENVIRONMENT

Wind tunnel measurements of buoyant flows in street canyons

(2012) Jonas Allegrini et al.   BUILDING AND ENVIRONMENT

Effect of flow unsteadiness on the mean wind flow pattern in an idealized urban environment

(2012) P. Moonen et al.   JOURNAL OF WIND ENGINEERING AND INDUSTRIAL AERODYNAMICS

Cooling the cities – A review of reflective and green roof mitigation technologies to fight heat island and improve comfort in urban environments

(2012) M. Santamouris   SOLAR ENERGY

Age of air and air exchange efficiency in high-rise urban areas and its link to pollutant dilution

(2011) Jian Hang et al.   ATMOSPHERIC ENVIRONMENT

Passive urban ventilation by combined buoyancy-driven slope flow and wall flow: Parametric CFD studies on idealized city models

(2011) Zhiwen Luo et al.   ATMOSPHERIC ENVIRONMENT

Remotely sensing the cooling effects of city scale efforts to reduce urban heat island

(2011) Christopher W. Mackey et al.   BUILDING AND ENVIRONMENT

Surface Urban Heat Island Across 419 Global Big Cities

(2011) Shushi Peng et al.   ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY

Experimental investigation and CFD analysis of cross-ventilated flow through single room detached house model

(2010) Tomohiro Kobayashi et al.   BUILDING AND ENVIRONMENT

Numerical Simulation and In Situ Investigation of Fine Particle Dispersion in an Actual Deep Street Canyon in Hong Kong

(2010) Yun-Wei Zhang et al.   INDOOR AND BUILT ENVIRONMENT

Urban Energy Balance Obtained from the Comprehensive Outdoor Scale Model Experiment. Part I: Basic Features of the Surface Energy Balance

(2010) Toru Kawai et al.   Journal of Applied Meteorology and Climatology

Flow, turbulence, and pollutant dispersion in urban atmospheresa)

(2010) H. J. S. Fernando et al.   PHYSICS OF FLUIDS

Application of computational fluid dynamics in building performance simulation for the outdoor environment: an overview

(2010) Bert Blocken et al.   Journal of Building Performance Simulation

City ventilation of Hong Kong at no-wind conditions

(2009) Lina Yang et al.   ATMOSPHERIC ENVIRONMENT

Numerical investigation of pollutant transport characteristics inside deep urban street canyons

(2009) Xian-Xiang Li et al.   ATMOSPHERIC ENVIRONMENT

Effects of building aspect ratio and wind speed on air temperatures in urban-like street canyons

(2009) Rizwan Ahmed Memon et al.   BUILDING AND ENVIRONMENT

Coupled urban wind flow and indoor natural ventilation modelling on a high-resolution grid: A case study for the Amsterdam ArenA stadium

(2009) T. van Hooff et al.   ENVIRONMENTAL MODELLING & SOFTWARE

Experimental study of temperature and airflow distribution inside an urban street canyon during hot summer weather conditions—Part I: Air and surface temperatures

(2007) K. Niachou et al.   BUILDING AND ENVIRONMENT