Urban microclimate and its impact on built environment–a review

S Yang, LL Wang, T Stathopoulos, AM Marey - Building and Environment, 2023 - Elsevier
Increasing urbanization and population growth have brought attention to urban
microclimates in recent years. The study on urban microclimate and its impact on the built …

Computational wind engineering: 30 years of research progress in building structures and environment

T Potsis, Y Tominaga, T Stathopoulos - Journal of Wind Engineering and …, 2023 - Elsevier
The paper reviews the evolution of computational wind engineering from environmental and
structural perspectives, since the inaugural conference of computational wind engineering …

IoT monitoring of urban tree ecosystem services: Possibilities and challenges

V Matasov, L Belelli Marchesini, A Yaroslavtsev, G Sala… - Forests, 2020 - mdpi.com
Urban green infrastructure plays an increasingly significant role in sustainable urban
development planning as it provides important regulating and cultural ecosystem services …

CFD modeling of micro and urban climates: Problems to be solved in the new decade

PA Mirzaei - Sustainable Cities and Society, 2021 - Elsevier
Despite the popularity of the micro/urban climate CFD modeling as a powerful approach to
simulate convective exchanges in urban areas, yet its application faces three profound …

[HTML][HTML] Static downscaling of mesoscale wind conditions into an urban canopy layer by a CFD microscale model

A Ricci, M Burlando, MP Repetto, B Blocken - Building and Environment, 2022 - Elsevier
Wind flows inside complex urban environments are determined by the mutual effect of large-
scale (ie, wind above the urban boundary layer, UBL) and local-scale forcing (ie constraints …

Pedestrian-level gust wind flow and comfort around a building array–influencing assessment on the pocket park

J Zhong, J Liu, Y Xu, G Liang - Sustainable Cities and Society, 2022 - Elsevier
Congested urban forms deteriorate urban ventilation, causing the problem of poor wind
comfort at the pedestrian level. Pocket parks are small-scale open spaces for …

Improving the pedestrian-level wind comfort by lift-up factors of panel residence complex: Field-measurement and CFD simulation

X Zhang, Y Gao, Q Tao, Y Min, J Fan - Building and Environment, 2023 - Elsevier
High-rise buildings in modern cities can hinder airflow and cause a weak local wind
condition that intensifies pedestrian-level thermal discomfort. The lift-up design has been …

Impact of urban morphology on the microclimate around elementary schools: A case study from Japan

X He, W Gao, R Wang - Building and Environment, 2021 - Elsevier
Urban morphology plays an increasingly important role in changes in the urban
microclimate. However, few studies have focused on how such changes are exhibited in …

Towards automatic reconstruction of 3D city models tailored for urban flow simulations

I Pađen, C García-Sánchez, H Ledoux - Frontiers in Built Environment, 2022 - frontiersin.org
In the computational fluid dynamics simulation workflow, the geometry preparation step is
often regarded as a tedious, time-consuming task. Many practitioners consider it one of the …

[HTML][HTML] Sensitivity of urban morphology and the number of CFD simulated wind directions on pedestrian wind comfort and safety assessments

TO Hågbo, KET Giljarhus - Building and Environment, 2024 - Elsevier
Pedestrian wind comfort and safety are critical in urban design, especially as cities densify
and climate change impacts intensify. While Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD) …