Air pollution dispersion modelling in urban environment using CFD: a systematic review

M Pantusheva, R Mitkov, PO Hristov… - Atmosphere, 2022 - mdpi.com
Air pollution is a global problem, which needs to be understood and controlled to ensure a
healthy environment and inform sustainable development. Urban areas have been …

CFD simulations of wind flow and pollutant dispersion in a street canyon with traffic flow: Comparison between RANS and LES

X Zheng, J Yang - Sustainable Cities and Society, 2021 - Elsevier
The dispersion of traffic pollutants in street canyons takes place under the joint influence of
the urban morphology and traffic-induced air motions. Computational fluid dynamics (CFD) …

[HTML][HTML] Impact of building façade geometrical details on pollutant dispersion in street canyons

X Zheng, H Montazeri, B Blocken - Building and Environment, 2022 - Elsevier
The present study investigates the impact of building façade geometrical details on the
pollutant transport mechanism in long street canyons. Large-eddy simulations (LES) …

A POD-DMD augmented procedure to isolating dominant flow field features in a street canyon

Y Fu, X Lin, L Li, Q Chu, H Liu, X Zheng, CH Liu… - Physics of …, 2023 - pubs.aip.org
This work develops a data analysis procedure, namely, proper orthogonal decomposition
(POD)-dynamic mode decomposition (DMD) augmented analysis, to isolate the energy-and …

CFD-and BPNN-based investigation and prediction of air pollutant dispersion in urban environment

X Lin, Y Fu, DZ Peng, CH Liu, M Chu, Z Chen… - Sustainable Cities and …, 2024 - Elsevier
This study employed a Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD)-based back propagation
neural network (BPNN) to investigate and predict the pollutant dispersion in an ideal urban …

Application of polyhedral meshes in large-eddy simulation of building array flow fields within neutral and unstable boundary layers

Y Li, T Okaze - Building and Environment, 2024 - Elsevier
Urbanization has intensified the urban heat island phenomenon, a critical concern for
human habitation in recent decades. Analyzing flow fields around building arrays is vital for …

[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 …

[HTML][HTML] On the impact of climate change on urban microclimate, thermal comfort, and human health: multiscale numerical simulations

N Antoniou, H Montazeri, B Blocken… - Building and …, 2024 - Elsevier
Climate change is expected to exacerbate urban microclimatic conditions and have adverse
effects on human morbidity and mortality. However, there is limited knowledge on the impact …

Analysis of the effect of dust barriers on particulate matter dispersion from a construction site using CFD simulation

J Choi, J Hong, T Hong - Environmental Pollution, 2023 - Elsevier
Urban construction activities generate particulate matter (PM), which poses a severe threat
to urban residents' quality of life. The complex topography of urban areas and turbulent air …

CFD simulation of flow fields and pollutant dispersion around a cubic building considering the effect of plume buoyancies

H Ma, X Zhou, Y Tominaga, M Gu - Building and Environment, 2022 - Elsevier
Plume buoyancy is one of the most crucial driving forces of gas pollutant dispersion in weak
wind regions such as the recirculation region. In this study, steady Reynolds-averaged …