Abstract Large Eddy Simulation (LES) undeniably has the potential to provide more accurate
and more reliable results than simulations based on the Reynolds-averaged Navier-Stokes …

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 global trend towards urbanisation explains the growing interest in the study of the
modification of the urban climate due to the heat island effect and global warming, and its …

Turbulence modeling and validation by experiments are key issues in the simulation of
micro-scale atmospheric dispersion. This study evaluates the performance of two different …

Green infrastructure (GI) in urban areas may be adopted as a passive control system to
reduce air pollutant concentrations. However, current dispersion models offer limited …

An obstacle to the modeling of strategies to mitigate extreme urban temperatures is
frequently the lack of on-site meteorological data. The current study thus reports on a …

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 …

Recently, countermeasures against the urban heat island effect have become increasingly
important in Tokyo. Such countermeasures include reduction of anthropogenic heat release …

An integrated urban air quality modeling system is established by coupling a computational
fluid dynamics (CFD) model with mesoscale meteorological and chemistry-transport models …

In the latest years the wind energy sector experienced an exponential growth all over the
world. What started as a deployment of onshore projects, soon moved to offshore and, more …