QUIC-fire: A fast-running simulation tool for prescribed fire planning

RR Linn, SL Goodrick, S Brambilla, MJ Brown… - … Modelling & Software, 2020 - Elsevier
Coupled fire-atmospheric modeling tools are increasingly used to understand the complex
and dynamic behavior of wildland fires. Multiple research tools linking combustion to fluid …

[HTML][HTML] Review of Wind Flow Modelling in Urban Environments to Support the Development of Urban Air Mobility

DS Nithya, G Quaranta, V Muscarello, M Liang - Drones, 2024 - mdpi.com
Urban air mobility (UAM) is a transformative mode of air transportation system technology
that is targeted to carry passengers and goods in and around urban areas using electric …

The effects of roadside structures on the transport and dispersion of ultrafine particles from highways

GE Bowker, R Baldauf, V Isakov, A Khlystov… - Atmospheric …, 2007 - Elsevier
Understanding local-scale transport and dispersion of pollutants emitted from traffic sources
is important for urban planning and air quality assessments. Predicting pollutant …

Simulation tools to assess microclimate and building energy–A case study on the design of a new district

A Gros, E Bozonnet, C Inard, M Musy - Energy and Buildings, 2016 - Elsevier
Since some years, dense cities and compact buildings are promoted as sustainable and
energy efficient designs. Nevertheless, urban planning strategies should take into account …

Cool materials impact at district scale—Coupling building energy and microclimate models

A Gros, E Bozonnet, C Inard - Sustainable Cities and Society, 2014 - Elsevier
As of 2007, more than half of the world's population now lives in urban areas and their
activities have led to an increase in building energy demand, notably in summer. The higher …

Evaluation of the coupling between mesoscale-WRF and LES‐EULAG models for simulating fine-scale urban dispersion

AA Wyszogrodzki, S Miao, F Chen - Atmospheric research, 2012 - Elsevier
To investigate small-scale transport and dispersion (T&D) within urban areas, we couple a
large-eddy-simulation (LES)-based urban-scale fluid solver (EULAG), with the mesoscale …

[HTML][HTML] URock 2023a: an open-source GIS-based wind model for complex urban settings

J Bernard, F Lindberg, S Oswald - Geoscientific Model …, 2023 - gmd.copernicus.org
URock 2023a is an open-source diagnostic model dedicated to wind field calculation in
urban settings. It is based on a quick method initially proposed by and already implemented …

An integrated modelling approach to estimate urban traffic emissions

A Misra, MJ Roorda, HL MacLean - Atmospheric Environment, 2013 - Elsevier
An integrated modelling approach is adopted to estimate microscale urban traffic emissions.
The modelling framework consists of a traffic microsimulation model developed in …

An inter-comparison of three urban wind models using Oklahoma City Joint Urban 2003 wind field measurements

M Neophytou, A Gowardhan, M Brown - Journal of Wind Engineering and …, 2011 - Elsevier
Three wind models are compared to near-surface time-averaged wind measurements
obtained in downtown Oklahoma City during the Joint Urban 2003 Field Campaign. The …

Utilizing dynamic parallelism in CUDA to accelerate a 3D red-black successive over relaxation wind-field solver

B Bozorgmehr, P Willemsen, JA Gibbs, R Stoll… - … Modelling & Software, 2021 - Elsevier
QES-Winds is a fast-response wind modeling platform for simulating high-resolution mean
wind fields for optimization and prediction. The code uses a variational analysis technique to …