Computational wind engineering: 30 years of research progress in building structures and environment

T Potsis, Y Tominaga, T Stathopoulos - Journal of Wind Engineering and …, 2023 - Elsevier
The paper reviews the evolution of computational wind engineering from environmental and
structural perspectives, since the inaugural conference of computational wind engineering …

Coupling dynamics and chemistry in the air pollution modelling of street canyons: A review

J Zhong, XM Cai, WJ Bloss - Environmental Pollution, 2016 - Elsevier
Air pollutants emitted from vehicles in street canyons may be reactive, undergoing mixing
and chemical processing before esca** into the overlying atmosphere. The deterioration …

Large-eddy simulation of flow around an isolated building: A step-by-step analysis of influencing factors on turbulent statistics

T Okaze, H Kikumoto, H Ono, M Imano, N Ikegaya… - Building and …, 2021 - Elsevier
We designed and exclusively performed a wind tunnel experiment to obtain high-quality and
high-resolution measurement results for three components of mean and fluctuating …

Improving air quality in high-density cities by understanding the relationship between air pollutant dispersion and urban morphologies

C Yuan, E Ng, LK Norford - Building and Environment, 2014 - Elsevier
In high-density megacities, air pollution has a higher impact on public health than cities of
lower population density. Apart from higher pollution emissions due to human activities in …

Ten questions concerning modeling of near-field pollutant dispersion in the built environment

Y Tominaga, T Stathopoulos - Building and Environment, 2016 - Elsevier
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 …

CFD simulation of flow in a long street canyon under a perpendicular wind direction: Evaluation of three computational settings

ZT Ai, CM Mak - Building and Environment, 2017 - Elsevier
A street canyon is an important platform for the understanding of local atmospheric flow and
other related processes in the built environment. Many previous studies focused on long …

[HTML][HTML] Large-eddy simulation of pollutant dispersion in generic urban street canyons: Guidelines for domain size

X Zheng, H Montazeri, B Blocken - Journal of Wind Engineering and …, 2021 - Elsevier
Pollutant dispersion in urban street canyons has been widely investigated by large-eddy
simulation (LES). Many LES studies focused on generic street canyons under a wind …

Fast estimation of airflow distribution in an urban model using generative adversarial networks with limited sensing data☆

C Hu, H Kikumoto, B Zhang, H Jia - Building and Environment, 2024 - Elsevier
Fast estimation of instantaneous urban airflow distribution can protect pedestrians and
objects from high-speed winds and promote high-efficiency natural ventilation. Statistical …

Modelling the dispersion and transport of reactive pollutants in a deep urban street canyon: Using large-eddy simulation

J Zhong, XM Cai, WJ Bloss - Environmental pollution, 2015 - Elsevier
This study investigates the dispersion and transport of reactive pollutants in a deep urban
street canyon with an aspect ratio of 2 under neutral meteorological conditions using large …

A numerical investigation of reactive air pollutant dispersion in urban street canyons with tree planting

M Moradpour, H Afshin, B Farhanieh - Atmospheric Pollution Research, 2017 - Elsevier
Vegetation acts as a momentum and thermal sink, affecting the mixing of species and
temperature-dependent constants of reaction rates. Numerical simulations were performed …