A review on the significance and perspective of the numerical simulations of outdoor thermal environment

CKC Lam, H Lee, SR Yang, S Park - Sustainable Cities and Society, 2021 - Elsevier
Computer simulation programs have been used since 2006 for analyzing outdoor human
thermal environments. This study reviewed 130 peer-reviewed papers published during …

A review on the study of urban wind at the pedestrian level around buildings

H Mittal, A Sharma, A Gairola - Journal of Building Engineering, 2018 - Elsevier
Urbanization is leading towards the change of local wind climate in the vicinity of tall
buildings, which influences the pedestrian level wind environment to an uncomfortable or …

CFD simulation of outdoor ventilation of generic urban configurations with different urban densities and equal and unequal street widths

R Ramponi, B Blocken, LB de Coo… - Building and …, 2015 - Elsevier
Outdoor ventilation is very important for a healthy and livable urban environment. It is
strongly influenced by wind speed and direction, which in turn are affected by urban …

[HTML][HTML] Impact of morphological parameters on urban ventilation in compact cities: The case of the Tuscolano-Don Bosco district in Rome

O Palusci, P Monti, C Cecere, H Montazeri… - Science of the Total …, 2022 - Elsevier
Air pollution and heat stress are major concerns associated with the liveability, resilience
and sustainability of cities. They directly affect health and comfort and are associated with …

Impacts of urban morphology on reducing cooling load and increasing ventilation potential in hot-arid climate

K Javanroodi, M Mahdavinejad, VM Nik - Applied energy, 2018 - Elsevier
Cooling buildings in urban areas with hot-arid climate put huge loads on the energy system.
There is an increasing trend in urban energy studies to recognize the urban design …

PIGNN-CFD: A physics-informed graph neural network for rapid predicting urban wind field defined on unstructured mesh

X Shao, Z Liu, S Zhang, Z Zhao, C Hu - Building and Environment, 2023 - Elsevier
Urban wind field plays an important role in quantitative assessment of urban environment.
Compared to field measurement and wind tunnel experiment, Computational Fluid …

COVID-19 and urban spaces: A new integrated CFD approach for public health opportunities

AM Hassan, NA Megahed - Building and Environment, 2021 - Elsevier
Safe urban public spaces are vital owing to their impacts on public health, especially during
pandemics such as the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic. Urban public spaces and urbanscape …

The impacts of building height variations and building packing densities on flow adjustment and city breathability in idealized urban models

L Chen, J Hang, M Sandberg, L Claesson… - Building and …, 2017 - Elsevier
Improving city breathability has been confirmed as one feasible measure to improve
pollutant dilution in the urban canopy layer (UCL). Building height variability enhances …

[HTML][HTML] CFD and wind-tunnel analysis of outdoor ventilation in a real compact heterogeneous urban area: Evaluation using “air delay”

N Antoniou, H Montazeri, H Wigo… - Building and …, 2017 - Elsevier
Outdoor urban ventilation in a real complex urban area is investigated by introducing a new
ventilation indicator–the “air delay”. Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD) simulations are …

Airborne engineered nanomaterials in the workplace—a review of release and worker exposure during nanomaterial production and handling processes

Y Ding, TAJ Kuhlbusch, M Van Tongeren… - Journal of hazardous …, 2017 - Elsevier
For exposure and risk assessment in occupational settings involving engineered
nanomaterials (ENMs), it is important to understand the mechanisms of release and how …