Urban microclimate and its impact on built environment–a review

S Yang, LL Wang, T Stathopoulos, AM Marey - Building and Environment, 2023‏ - Elsevier
Increasing urbanization and population growth have brought attention to urban
microclimates in recent years. The study on urban microclimate and its impact on the built …

[HTML][HTML] CFD simulations of turbulent flow and dispersion in built environment: A perspective review

Y Tominaga - Journal of Wind Engineering and Industrial …, 2024‏ - Elsevier
Computational fluid dynamics (CFD), a powerful analysis tool in wind engineering, has been
applied to a wide variety of problems over the past few decades. The application of CFD to …

Computational Fluid Dynamics for urban physics: Importance, scales, possibilities, limitations and ten tips and tricks towards accurate and reliable simulations

B Blocken - Building and Environment, 2015‏ - Elsevier
Urban physics is the science and engineering of physical processes in urban areas. It
basically refers to the transfer of heat and mass in the outdoor and indoor urban …

[ספר][B] SFPE handbook of fire protection engineering

MJ Hurley, DT Gottuk, JR Hall Jr, K Harada… - 2015‏ - books.google.com
Revised and significantly expanded, the fifth edition of this classic work offers both new and
substantially updated information. As the definitive reference on fire protection engineering …

50 years of computational wind engineering: past, present and future

B Blocken - Journal of Wind Engineering and Industrial …, 2014‏ - Elsevier
In the past 50 years, Computational Wind Engineering (CWE) has undergone a successful
transition from an emerging field into an increasingly established field in wind engineering …

Boundary layer wind tunnel tests of outdoor airflow field around urban buildings: A review of methods and status

Y Zhao, R Li, L Feng, Y Wu, J Niu, N Gao - Renewable and Sustainable …, 2022‏ - Elsevier
Outdoor airflow fields have received increasing attention in the building aerodynamics
community in virtue of the airflow distributions around buildings are closely related to issues …

Wind tunnel measurement of three-dimensional turbulent flow structures around a building group: Impact of high-rise buildings on pedestrian wind environment

Y Tominaga, M Shirzadi - Building and Environment, 2021‏ - Elsevier
The wind velocity and surface pressure of the model of a group of urban blocks made of low-
rise buildings with a high-rise building in the center were measured using a wind tunnel. Not …

Approaches to study urban heat island–abilities and limitations

PA Mirzaei, F Haghighat - Building and environment, 2010‏ - Elsevier
Urban Heat Island (UHI) has significant impacts on the buildings energy consumption and
outdoor air quality (OAQ). Various approaches, including observation and simulation …

A review of multi-scale modelling, assessment, and improvement methods of the urban thermal and wind environment

S Du, X Zhang, X **, X Zhou, X Shi - Building and Environment, 2022‏ - Elsevier
The urban thermal and wind environment (UTWE) has become a major concern in urban
planning design. Consideration of the UTWE involves steps of modelling, assessment, and …

[HTML][HTML] Urban Physics: Effect of the micro-climate on comfort, health and energy demand

P Moonen, T Defraeye, V Dorer, B Blocken… - Frontiers of Architectural …, 2012‏ - Elsevier
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 …