Multiscale numerical assessment of urban overheating under climate projections: A review

J Zou, H Lu, C Shu, L Ji, A Gaur, LL Wang - Urban Climate, 2023 - Elsevier
Climate change and urbanization have exacerbated concerns about urban overheating,
affecting thermal comfort, heat-related mortality, and urban energy consumption, especially …

Assessment of future overheating conditions in Canadian cities using a reference year selection method

J Zou, A Gaur, LL Wang, A Laouadi, M Lacasse - Building and Environment, 2022 - Elsevier
Climate change has led to prolonged, more frequent, intense, and severe extreme weather
events, such as summertime heatwaves, creating many challenges on the economy and …

[HTML][HTML] Improving the prediction of wind speed and power production of SCADA system with ensemble method and 10-fold cross-validation

SM Malakouti - Case Studies in Chemical and Environmental …, 2023 - Elsevier
This research used machine-learning-based forecasting models to estimate a Supervisory
control and data acquisition system's wind speed and electricity production. Six machine …

Urban wind field prediction based on sparse sensors and physics‐informed graph‐assisted auto‐encoder

H Gao, G Hu, D Zhang, W Jiang, KT Tse… - … ‐Aided Civil and …, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
The urban flow wind field is a critical element for downstream research, such as mitigation of
urban wind disasters, assessment of urban wind environment, and urban drone route …

Characterization of human extreme heat exposure using an outdoor thermal manikin

A Joshi, SH Viswanathan, AK Jaiswal… - Science of the Total …, 2024 - Elsevier
Extreme heat is a current and growing global health concern. Current heat exposure models
include meteorological and human factors that dictate heat stress, comfort, and risk of …

An enhanced k-ω SST model to predict airflows around isolated and urban buildings

JM Gimenez, F Bre - Building and Environment, 2023 - Elsevier
The goal of this research is to improve and validate a Reynolds Averaged Navier–Stokes
(RANS) turbulence model to perform accurate Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD) …

[HTML][HTML] Buoyancy effects on the flows around flat and steep street canyons in simplified urban settings subject to a neutral approaching boundary layer: Wind tunnel …

Y Zhao, H Li, A Kubilay, J Carmeliet - Science of the Total Environment, 2021 - Elsevier
The present wind tunnel particle image velocimetry (PIV) measurements document flows
around flat and steep street canyons subject to thermal conditions at different levels, ranging …

A study of the characteristics of dynamic incoming flow directions of different airflows and their influence on wind comfort

Z **e, Y **e, B Cao, Y Zhu - Building and Environment, 2023 - Elsevier
Studies on the dynamic characteristics and comfort evaluation of natural and mechanical
wind have been extensively conducted over the past two decades. However, in these …

Drone Photogrammetry-based Wind Field Simulation for Climate Adaptation in Urban Environments

D Gu, N Zhang, Q Shuai, Z Xu, Y Xu - Sustainable Cities and Society, 2024 - Elsevier
Addressing climate change issues is one of the most important tasks within the United
Nations Sustainable Development Goals. Accurate and efficient simulation of wind fields …

Onsite measurements of pedestrian-level wind and preliminary assessment of effects of turbulence characteristics on human body convective heat transfer

S Zhou, Y Yu, KCS Kwok, J Niu - Energy and Buildings, 2024 - Elsevier
Wind is an important factor affecting outdoor thermal comfort in urban environment, but its
turbulence characteristics at the pedestrian level and effects on convective heat transfer (hc) …