Urban microclimate studies are gaining popularity due to rapid urbanization. Many studies
documented that urban microclimate can affect building energy performance, human …

Urban street canyon flows play a central role in microclimate control, from street canyon to
neighbourhood and city scale, which affect pollutant dispersion, thermal comfort of residents …

This paper is a summary of the" Best Practice Guideline"(BPG) document (Franke et al.,
2007) produced in the framework of the European COST Action 732" Quality assurance and …

With rapid development in computer hardware and numerical algorithms, computational
fluid dynamics (CFD) techniques are widely utilized to study the wind field and pollutant …

A three-dimensional computational fluid dynamics model with the renormalization group k–ε
turbulence scheme is developed. The model developed is used to investigate the effects of …

Outdoor air pollution is a major current environmental problem. The precise prediction of
pollutant concentration distributions in the built environment is necessary for building design …

The evaluation of buoyancy effect on urban ventilation, especially on low wind conditions, is
important for the extreme urban heat islands to improve urban climate resilience. To provide …

Cities are facing significant challenges due to low outdoor air quality. Hence, a growing
number of studies have been conducted to develop strategies for improving air quality. This …

Field-measurements were conducted in an urban street canyon with an east–west
orientation, and a height-to-width ratio H/W= 1 during cloudless summer weather in 2003 in …

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 …