The urban energy infrastructure is facing a rising number of challenges due to climate
change and rapid urbanization. In particular, the link between urban morphology and energy …

Urbanization and climate change represent major public health challenges, impacting
several approaches, including urban microclimate (UMC) performance. UMC studies adopt …

Incorporating intelligent optimization algorithms in the early stages of office building design
facilitates a better response to the local climate. The indoor and outdoor thermal …

The rapid development of urbanization is accompanied by the diversification of building
heights. It has caused cities to face problem of non-uniform distribution of urban climate …

We validated seasonal RayMan and ENVI-met mean radiant temperature (T MRT)
simulations to assess model performance in a sensitivity analysis from cold to extremely hot …

In the physics-based simulation of urban geometries, the outdoor environment was usually
simulated separately from buildings–until recently, when the holistic assessment of the …

Outdoor thermal comfort (OTC) directly impacts on health and wellbeing of inhabitants while
it increases cooling energy demand of buildings. In this regards, different computational …

Abstract The residential Heating Ventilation and Air-Conditioning (HVAC) system use
around 3/5 of the total energy consumption. Connected thermostats optimize the HVAC …

Thermally comfortable mircoclimate is essential for creating high-quality outdoor spaces that
attract citizens and boost city vitality. Previous design efforts to improve outdoor thermal …

Over the last two decades, urban geometry has been shown to be a key determinant of the
microclimatic conditions in urban areas. This study uses the Ladybug-tools, the plugins of …