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 …

The urban boundary layer (UBL) is the part of the atmosphere in which most of the planet's
population now lives, and is one of the most complex and least understood microclimates …

In the last two decades substantial advances have been made in the understanding of the
scientific basis of urban climates. These are reviewed here with attention to sustainability of …

This investigation focuses on the characteristics of near-bed turbulence in fully rough gravel-
bed open-channel flows. The analysis combines results obtained with the double-averaging …

Breathability in dense building arrays with packing densities similar to those of typical
European cities is investigated using laboratory measurements and numerical simulations …

Urban flow fields computed by two steady Computational Fluid Dynamics models based on
the Reynolds-averaged Navier Stokes equations (CFD-RANS) are compared to validation …

Good representation of turbulence in urban canopy models is necessary for accurate
prediction of momentum and scalar distribution in and above urban canopies. To develop …

Mesoscale climate models provide indispensable tools to understand land‐atmosphere
interactions over urban regions. However, uncertainties in urban canopy parameters (UCPs) …

Strong tidal power flows are highly turbulent. The role of the seabed roughness on the
generation of turbulence is not yet fully understood. Numerical simulation is a promising …

Drag forces on sparsely packed cube arrays Page 1 J. Fluid Mech. (2019), vol. 880, pp. 992–1019.
c Cambridge University Press 2019 doi:10.1017/jfm.2019.726 992 Drag forces on sparsely …