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

The concept of building-integrated photovoltaic/thermal (BIPV/T) systems emerged in the
early 1990s. It has attracted increasing attention since 2000 due to its potential to facilitate …

Wind comfort and wind safety for pedestrians are important requirements in urban areas.
Many city authorities request studies of pedestrian wind comfort and wind safety for new …

Knowledge of the pressure distribution on building walls is important for the evaluation of
wind loads and natural ventilation. Wind-induced pressure distributions are influenced by a …

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 …

Convective heat transfer coefficients for external building surfaces (hc, ext) are essential in
building energy simulation (BES) to calculate convective heat gains and losses from …

The air flow around isolated gable-roof buildings with different roof pitches was investigated
by wind tunnel experiments and computational fluid dynamics (CFD) simulations based on a …

Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD) is increasingly used to study a wide variety of complex
Environmental Fluid Mechanics (EFM) processes, such as water flow and turbulent mixing of …

Among the solutions to the global energy problem, the utilisation of solar energy is, without a
doubt, one of the most encouraging ecological avenues. In a solar thermal system, the solar …

The accuracy and reliability of 3D steady RANS CFD simulations of wind flow in urban
environments can be affected by numerical settings including the turbulence model and the …