Guidelines for passive control of traffic-related air pollution in street canyons: An overview for urban planning

D Voordeckers, T Lauriks, S Denys, P Billen… - Landscape and Urban …, 2021 - Elsevier
Recent studies indicate the necessity of addressing traffic-related air pollution in urban
environments, as street canyons are known for their lack of natural ventilation and increased …

Impacts of urban morphology on reducing cooling load and increasing ventilation potential in hot-arid climate

K Javanroodi, M Mahdavinejad, VM Nik - Applied energy, 2018 - Elsevier
Cooling buildings in urban areas with hot-arid climate put huge loads on the energy system.
There is an increasing trend in urban energy studies to recognize the urban design …

Effect of roof shape, wind direction, building height and urban configuration on the energy yield and positioning of roof mounted wind turbines

I Abohela, N Hamza, S Dudek - Renewable energy, 2013 - Elsevier
The increasing interest among architects and planners in designing environmentally friendly
buildings has led to a desire to explore and integrate renewable sources of energy. Roof …

Review on pollutant dispersion in urban areas-part B: Local mitigation strategies, optimization framework, and evaluation theory

Z Li, T Ming, T Shi, H Zhang, CY Wen, X Lu… - Building and …, 2021 - Elsevier
Outdoor air pollution is a significant global issue because it poses a major long-term health
risk. A growing number of studies are conducted to develop local mitigation strategies for …

[HTML][HTML] CFD and wind-tunnel analysis of outdoor ventilation in a real compact heterogeneous urban area: Evaluation using “air delay”

N Antoniou, H Montazeri, H Wigo… - Building and …, 2017 - Elsevier
Outdoor urban ventilation in a real complex urban area is investigated by introducing a new
ventilation indicator–the “air delay”. Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD) simulations are …

Enhancement of city breathability with half open spaces in ideal urban street canyons

CY Wen, YH Juan, AS Yang - Building and Environment, 2017 - Elsevier
The design guidelines for assessing the wind environment at the pedestrian level have
become increasingly important in urban planning over the past few decades. The purpose of …

Natural ventilation assessment in typical open and semi-open urban environments under various wind directions

J Hang, Z Luo, M Sandberg, J Gong - Building and environment, 2013 - Elsevier
Semi-open street roofs protect pedestrians from intense sunshine and rains. Their effects on
natural ventilation of urban canopy layers (UCL) are less understood. This paper …

Effects of building setback on thermal comfort and air quality in the street canyon

Z Li, H Zhang, YH Juan, CY Wen, AS Yang - Building and Environment, 2022 - Elsevier
The concern of mitigating thermal stress and pollutant concentration has increased in recent
urban design. Most previous studies have demonstrated the promising potential of …

Optimization procedures for enhancement of city breathability using arcade design in a realistic high-rise urban area

YH Juan, AS Yang, CY Wen, YT Lee, PC Wang - Building and Environment, 2017 - Elsevier
Concern of city breathability has increased in recent project planning activities. Most
previous studies in the literature have demonstrated that it is possible to improve urban …

A combined framework of integrating optimized half-open spaces into buildings and an application to a realistic case study on urban ventilation and air pollutant …

YH Juan, CY Wen, Z Li, AS Yang - Journal of Building Engineering, 2021 - Elsevier
The project planning activities of urban air quality and breathability have increasingly
become the noticed issues around the world in recent times. In this study, the incorporation …