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

Y Tominaga, T Stathopoulos - Atmospheric environment, 2013 - Elsevier
Near-field pollutant dispersion in the urban environment involves the interaction of a plume
and the flow field perturbed by building obstacles. In the past two decades, micro-scale …

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

B Blocken, T Stathopoulos, J Carmeliet… - Journal of building …, 2011 - Taylor & Francis
This article provides an overview of the application of computational fluid dynamics (CFD) in
building performance simulation for the outdoor environment, focused on four topics:(1) …

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

N Antoniou, H Montazeri, M Neophytou… - Science of the total …, 2019 - Elsevier
Heat stress in urban areas can have detrimental effects on human health, comfort and
productivity. In order to mitigate heat stress, Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD) …

Recent progress in CFD modelling of wind field and pollutant transport in street canyons

XX Li, CH Liu, DYC Leung, KM Lam - Atmospheric Environment, 2006 - Elsevier
With rapid development in computer hardware and numerical algorithms, computational
fluid dynamics (CFD) techniques are widely utilized to study the wind field and pollutant …

Pollutant concentrations in street canyons of different aspect ratio with avenues of trees for various wind directions

C Gromke, B Ruck - Boundary-Layer Meteorology, 2012 - Springer
This study summarizes the effects of avenues of trees in urban street canyons on traffic
pollutant dispersion. We describe various wind-tunnel experiments with different tree …

Interactions of an urban heat island and sea-breeze circulations during winter over the metropolitan area of São Paulo, Brazil

ED Freitas, CM Rozoff, WR Cotton, PLS Dias - Boundary-layer …, 2007 - Springer
Abstract The Town Energy Budget (TEB) model, a detailed urban parameterisation using a
generalised canyon geometry, coupled with the Regional Atmospheric Modelling System …

Applied climatology: urban climate

C Souch, S Grimmond - Progress in physical geography, 2006 - journals.sagepub.com
Given the large and ever-increasing number of urban inhabitants globally, and the profound
effects of cities and their inhabitants on the atmosphere, both within and beyond urban limits …

[HTML][HTML] How tall buildings affect turbulent air flows and dispersion of pollution within a neighbourhood

E Aristodemou, LM Boganegra, L Mottet, D Pavlidis… - Environmental …, 2018 - Elsevier
The city of London, UK, has seen in recent years an increase in the number of high-rise/multi-
storey buildings (“skyscrapers”) with roof heights reaching 150 m and more, with the Shard …

On the impact of trees on dispersion processes of traffic emissions in street canyons

C Gromke, B Ruck - Boundary-Layer Meteorology, 2009 - Springer
Wind-tunnel studies of dispersion processes of traffic exhaust in urban street canyons with
tree planting were performed and tracer gas concentrations using electron capture detection …

Effects of building roof greening on air quality in street canyons

JJ Baik, KH Kwak, SB Park, YH Ryu - Atmospheric Environment, 2012 - Elsevier
Building roof greening is a successful strategy for improving urban thermal environment. It is
of theoretical interest and practical importance to study the effects of building roof greening …