The influence of solar natural heating and NO -O3 photochemistry on flow and reactive pollutant exposure in 2D street canyons

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

Impacts of urban configuration on urban heat island: An empirical study in China mega-cities

(2019) Wenze Yue et al.   SCIENCE OF THE TOTAL ENVIRONMENT

Impact of viaduct on flow reversion and pollutant dispersion in 2D urban street canyon with different roof shapes - Numerical simulation and wind tunnel experiment

(2019) Shuo Ding et al.   SCIENCE OF THE TOTAL ENVIRONMENT

The influence of advertisement boards, street and source layouts on CO dispersion and building intake fraction in three-dimensional urban-like models

(2019) Yuanyuan Lin et al.   BUILDING AND ENVIRONMENT

Simulating micro-scale thermal interactions in different building environments for mitigating urban heat islands

(2019) Soumendu Chatterjee et al.   SCIENCE OF THE TOTAL ENVIRONMENT

Characterizing the morphology of real street models and modeling its effect on thermal environment

(2019) Chao Guo et al.   ENERGY AND BUILDINGS

Integrated impacts of turbulent mixing and NOX-O3 photochemistry on reactive pollutant dispersion and intake fraction in shallow and deep street canyons

(2019) Keer Zhang et al.   SCIENCE OF THE TOTAL ENVIRONMENT

Pedestrian-level wind environment near a super-tall building with unconventional configurations in a regular urban area

(2019) Xuelin Zhang et al.   Building Simulation

Indices employed for the assessment of “urban outdoor ventilation” - A review

(2019) Yunlong Peng et al.   ATMOSPHERIC ENVIRONMENT

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

Impacts of Realistic Urban Heating. Part II: Air Quality and City Breathability

(2018) Negin Nazarian et al.   BOUNDARY-LAYER METEOROLOGY

Application of a multi-variable optimization method to determine lift-up design for optimum wind comfort

(2018) Yaxing Du et al.   BUILDING AND ENVIRONMENT

The impacts of viaduct settings and street aspect ratios on personal intake fraction in three-dimensional urban-like geometries

(2018) Jian Hang et al.   BUILDING AND ENVIRONMENT

Air ventilation assessment under unstable atmospheric stratification — A comparative study for Hong Kong

(2018) Weiwen Wang et al.   BUILDING AND ENVIRONMENT

Development and optimization of a new ventilated brick wall: CFD analysis and experimental validation

(2018) Cinzia Buratti et al.   ENERGY AND BUILDINGS

Impact of shortwave multiple reflections in an urban street canyon on building thermal energy demands

(2018) A. Vallati et al.   ENERGY AND BUILDINGS

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

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

Pedestrian-level wind conditions in the space underneath lift-up buildings

(2018) Xuelin Zhang et al.   JOURNAL OF WIND ENGINEERING AND INDUSTRIAL AERODYNAMICS

Evaluation of satellite-derived building height extraction by CFD simulations: A case study of neighborhood-scale ventilation in Hong Kong

(2018) Weiwen Wang et al.   LANDSCAPE AND URBAN PLANNING

Lung cancer risk assessment due to traffic-generated particles exposure in urban street canyons: A numerical modelling approach

(2018) M. Scungio et al.   SCIENCE OF THE TOTAL ENVIRONMENT

The impact of urban open space and ‘lift-up’ building design on building intake fraction and daily pollutant exposure in idealized urban models

(2018) Chenyuan Sha et al.   SCIENCE OF THE TOTAL ENVIRONMENT

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

(2018) Khaled Athamena et al.   SOLAR ENERGY

Review on urban tree modelling in CFD simulations: Aerodynamic, deposition and thermal effects

(2018) Riccardo Buccolieri et al.   URBAN FORESTRY & URBAN GREENING

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

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

Large eddy simulation of reactive pollutants in a deep urban street canyon: Coupling dynamics with O 3 -NO x -VOC chemistry

(2017) Jian Zhong et al.   ENVIRONMENTAL POLLUTION

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

Buoyancy and turbulence-driven atmospheric circulation over urban areas

(2017) Yifan Fan et al.   JOURNAL OF ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCES

A semi-empirical model for the effect of trees on the urban wind environment

(2017) Chao Yuan et al.   LANDSCAPE AND URBAN PLANNING

A review on the CFD analysis of urban microclimate

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

Evaluation of a CFD-based approach to estimate pollutant distribution within a real urban canopy by means of passive samplers

(2017) J.L. Santiago et al.   SCIENCE OF THE TOTAL ENVIRONMENT

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

Pedestrian-Level Urban Wind Flow Enhancement with Wind Catchers

(2017) Lup Chew et al.   Atmosphere

Numerical investigation on the coupled effects of building-tree arrangements on fine particulate matter (PM 2.5 ) dispersion in housing blocks

(2017) Bo Hong et al.   Sustainable Cities and Society

Effect of stable stratification on dispersion within urban street canyons: A large-eddy simulation

(2016) Xian-Xiang Li et al.   ATMOSPHERIC ENVIRONMENT

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

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

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

Reduction of outdoor particulate matter concentrations by local removal in semi-enclosed parking garages: A preliminary case study for Eindhoven city center

(2016) Bert Blocken et al.   JOURNAL OF WIND ENGINEERING AND INDUSTRIAL AERODYNAMICS

Influence of building surface solar irradiance on environmental temperatures in urban neighborhoods

(2016) Mohammad Heidarinejad et al.   Sustainable Cities and Society

Characteristics of flow and reactive pollutant dispersion in urban street canyons

(2015) Soo-Jin Park et al.   ATMOSPHERIC ENVIRONMENT

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

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

CFD simulation of outdoor ventilation of generic urban configurations with different urban densities and equal and unequal street widths

(2015) Rubina Ramponi et al.   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

Modelling the dispersion and transport of reactive pollutants in a deep urban street canyon: Using large-eddy simulation

(2015) Jian Zhong et al.   ENVIRONMENTAL POLLUTION

A theory of ventilation estimate over hypothetical urban areas

(2015) Chun-Ho Liu et al.   JOURNAL OF HAZARDOUS MATERIALS

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

Coupled CFD, radiation and building energy model for studying heat fluxes in an urban environment with generic building configurations

(2015) Jonas Allegrini et al.   Sustainable Cities and Society

Estimating urban roadside emissions with an atmospheric dispersion model based on in-field measurements

(2014) Yichao Pu et al.   ENVIRONMENTAL POLLUTION

Dispersion and photochemical evolution of reactive pollutants in street canyons

(2013) Kyung-Hwan Kwak et al.   ATMOSPHERIC ENVIRONMENT

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

(2013) Yoshihide Tominaga et al.   ATMOSPHERIC 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 building aspect ratio, diurnal heating scenario, and wind speed on reactive pollutant dispersion in urban street canyons

(2013) Nelson Y.O. Tong et al.   JOURNAL OF ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCES

Simulating near-road reactive dispersion of gaseous air pollutants using a three-dimensional Eulerian model

(2013) Sri Harsha Kota et al.   SCIENCE OF THE TOTAL ENVIRONMENT

A modeling investigation of the impact of street and building configurations on personal air pollutant exposure in isolated deep urban canyons

(2013) Wai-Yin Ng et al.   SCIENCE OF THE TOTAL ENVIRONMENT

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

(2012) Xiaoming Cai   ATMOSPHERIC ENVIRONMENT

The influence of building height variability on pollutant dispersion and pedestrian ventilation in idealized high-rise urban areas

(2012) Jian Hang et al.   BUILDING AND ENVIRONMENT

Wind tunnel measurements of buoyant flows in street canyons

(2012) Jonas Allegrini et al.   BUILDING AND ENVIRONMENT

City breathability as quantified by the exchange velocity and its spatial variation in real inhomogeneous urban geometries: An example from central London urban area

(2012) Ioannis Panagiotou et al.   SCIENCE OF THE TOTAL ENVIRONMENT

A CFD modeling study of the impacts of NOx and VOC emissions on reactive pollutant dispersion in and above a street canyon

(2011) Kyung-Hwan Kwak et al.   ATMOSPHERIC ENVIRONMENT

Urban air quality modeling with full O3–NOx–VOC chemistry: Implications for O3 and PM air quality in a street canyon

(2011) Minjoong J. Kim et al.   ATMOSPHERIC ENVIRONMENT

Effect of uneven building layout on air flow and pollutant dispersion in non-uniform street canyons

(2011) Zhao-Lin Gu et al.   BUILDING AND ENVIRONMENT

Building porosity for better urban ventilation in high-density cities – A computational parametric study

(2011) Chao Yuan et al.   BUILDING AND ENVIRONMENT

A methodology for predicting particle penetration factor through cracks of windows and doors for actual engineering application

(2011) Chun Chen et al.   BUILDING AND ENVIRONMENT

COST 732 in practice: the MUST model evaluation exercise

(2011) Silvana Di Sabatino et al.   INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF ENVIRONMENT AND POLLUTION

City breathability and its link to pollutant concentration distribution within urban-like geometries

(2010) Riccardo Buccolieri et al.   ATMOSPHERIC ENVIRONMENT

Intake fraction of nonreactive motor vehicle exhaust in Hong Kong

(2010) Zhiwen Luo et al.   ATMOSPHERIC 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-scale CFD analysis in support of a climate-sensitive design for the Tokyo Bay area

(2010) Yasunobu Ashie et al.   INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF CLIMATOLOGY

Numerical simulation of atmospheric pollutant dispersion in an urban street canyon: Comparison between RANS and LES

(2010) Salim Mohamed Salim et al.   JOURNAL OF WIND ENGINEERING AND INDUSTRIAL AERODYNAMICS

Numerical investigation of pollutant transport characteristics inside deep urban street canyons

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

Further studies of flow and reactive pollutant dispersion in a street canyon with bottom heating

(2008) Yoon-So Kang et al.   ATMOSPHERIC ENVIRONMENT

Simulations of the dispersion of reactive pollutants in a street canyon, considering different chemical mechanisms and micromixing

(2008) A. Garmory et al.   ATMOSPHERIC ENVIRONMENT

Towards the application of indoor ventilation efficiency indices to evaluate the air quality of urban areas

(2008) Mahmoud Bady et al.   BUILDING AND ENVIRONMENT

Probability Density Functions Describing 24-Hour Inhalation Rates for Use in Human Health Risk Assessments: An Update and Comparison

(2008) Margaret Allan et al.   HUMAN AND ECOLOGICAL RISK ASSESSMENT

The impact of urban street canyons on population exposure to traffic-related primary pollutants

(2007) Y ZHOU et al.   ATMOSPHERIC ENVIRONMENT

Air pollution in mega cities in China

(2007) Chak K. Chan et al.   ATMOSPHERIC ENVIRONMENT

Inhalation intake fraction of pollutants from episodic indoor emissions

(2006) William W Nazaroff   BUILDING AND ENVIRONMENT