LES over RANS in building simulation for outdoor and indoor applications: A foregone conclusion?

B Blocken - Building Simulation, 2018 - Springer
Abstract Large Eddy Simulation (LES) undeniably has the potential to provide more accurate
and more reliable results than simulations based on the Reynolds-averaged Navier-Stokes …

Review of advances in urban climate study in the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macau greater bay area, China

L Li, PW Chan, T Deng, HL Yang, HY Luo, D ** a method to estimate building height from Sentinel-1 data
X Li, Y Zhou, P Gong, KC Seto, N Clinton - Remote Sensing of Environment, 2020 - Elsevier
Building height is one of the key variables in studying anthropogenic activities and built
environments in the urban system. However, the information of urban building height over …

Integrated impacts of tree planting and street aspect ratios on CO dispersion and personal exposure in full-scale street canyons

H Yang, T Chen, Y Lin, R Buccolieri, M Mattsson… - Building and …, 2020 - Elsevier
Validated by experimental data, this paper performs computational fluid dynamics (CFD)
simulations to investigate the influence of tree plantings on urban airflow and vehicular CO …

Creating breathing cities by adopting urban ventilation assessment and wind corridor plan–The implementation in Chinese cities

C Ren, R Yang, C Cheng, P **ng, X Fang… - Journal of Wind …, 2018 - Elsevier
In recent years, urban ventilation assessment and urban ventilation corridor plan have been
conducted and adopted in the urban planning of Chinese cities in response to the national …

Spatial differentiation of urban wind and thermal environment in different grid sizes

J Yang, Y Wang, X **ao, C **, JC **a, X Li - Urban Climate, 2019 - Elsevier
Due to rapid urbanization, China's urban morphology has undergone tremendous changes,
resulting in an increased urban heat island (UHI) effect and negative impact of thermal …

Integrated impacts of turbulent mixing and NOX-O3 photochemistry on reactive pollutant dispersion and intake fraction in shallow and deep street canyons

K Zhang, G Chen, Y Zhang, S Liu, X Wang… - Science of the Total …, 2020 - Elsevier
We employ computational fluid dynamics (CFD) simulations with NO-NO 2-O 3 chemistry to
investigate the impacts of aspect ratios (H/W= 1, 3, 5), elevated-building design, wind …

[HTML][HTML] Quantifying the impact of urban ventilation corridors on thermal environment in Chinese megacities

A Guo, W Yue, J Yang, M Li, P **e, T He, M Zhang… - Ecological …, 2023 - Elsevier
In the context of global warming and rapid urbanization, urban wind-heat environment has
become increasingly prominent. Although the identification of ventilation corridors has been …

Assessing the environmental benefits of urban ventilation corridors: A case study in Hefei, China

Y Fang, L Zhao - Building and Environment, 2022 - Elsevier
Precise and timely assessments of the environmental benefits of urban ventilation corridors
are important for understanding urban sustainability. Previous studies have mainly focused …

Spatial planning for urban ventilation corridors by urban climatology

K Gu, Y Fang, Z Qian, Z Sun, A Wang - Ecosystem Health and …, 2020 - spj.science.org
Ventilation corridors in cities can decrease air pollution and alleviate heat island problems
but there remains a need to fully assess their effectiveness. Few urban managers have been …