Review of OpenFOAM applications in the computational wind engineering: from wind environment to wind structural engineering

A Ricci - Meccanica, 2024 - Springer
The use of computational fluid dynamics (CFD) in the wind engineering (WE) is generally
defined as computational wind engineering (CWE). Since its foundation in 2004, the use of …

Urban micro-scale street thermal comfort prediction using a 'graph attention network'model

L Zheng, W Lu - Building and Environment, 2024 - Elsevier
Outdoor thermal comfort (OTC) directly affects human behavior and building operations. It is
also a key factor in the achievement of smart living. When modeling OTC, existing studies …

sat2shp: Extracting key building features from a single satellite image for urban building energy modelling and beyond

T Wang, C Reinhart, YQ Ang - Sustainable Cities and Society, 2025 - Elsevier
This paper introduces sat2shp, a novel framework for extracting 2.5 D building massing and
use type from satellite imagery. The core of sat2shp is a Mask R-CNNsingle bondHR model …

[HTML][HTML] Understanding Urban Cooling of Blue–Green Infrastructure: A Review of Spatial Data and Sustainable Planning Optimization Methods for Mitigating Urban …

G Budzik, M Sylla, T Kowalczyk - Sustainability, 2024 - mdpi.com
Many studies in the literature have assessed the blue–green infrastructure (BGI)
characteristics that influence its cooling potential for sustainable urban development …

Predicting the urban stormwater drainage system state using the Graph-WaveNet

M Li, X Shi, Z Lu, Z Kapelan - Sustainable Cities and Society, 2024 - Elsevier
Abstract Graph Neural Networks (GNNs) have been applied to network data such as traffic
flow and water distribution systems, yet their use in predicting the state of urban stormwater …

[HTML][HTML] Adversarial image-to-image model to obtain highly detailed wind fields from mesoscale simulations in urban environments

J Milla-Val, C Montañés, N Fueyo - Building and Environment, 2024 - Elsevier
We propose a conditional Generative Adversarial Network (cGAN) that can produce detailed
local wind fields in urban areas, comparable in level of detail to those from Computational …

A fast and multifactor evacuation method considering cumulative fatality rate based on deep reinforcement learning for urban toxic gas leakage

X Shao, H Yang, Z Liu, M Li, J He, J Huang… - Sustainable Cities and …, 2024 - Elsevier
Toxic gas leakage accidents negatively impact human health and the social economy,
affecting the sustainability and resilience of cities. It is significant to provide safe evacuation …

Enhancing the accuracy of physics-informed neural networks for indoor airflow simulation with experimental data and Reynolds-averaged Navier–Stokes turbulence …

C Zhang, CY Wen, Y Jia, YH Juan, YT Lee, Z Chen… - Physics of …, 2024 - pubs.aip.org
Physics-informed neural network (PINN) has aroused broad interest among fluid simulation
researchers in recent years, representing a novel paradigm in this area where governing …

Rapid prediction for the transient dispersion of leaked airborne pollutant in urban environment based on graph neural networks

X Shao, S Zhang, X Liu, Z Liu, J Huang - Journal of Hazardous Materials, 2024 - Elsevier
Rapidly predicting airborne pollutant dispersion in urban is vital for ventilation design and
evacuation planning. Computational fluid dynamics (CFD) simulations are commonly used …

Quickly forecasting the future state of urban sensors by the missing-data-tolerant deep learning approach

P Wang, H Zhang, S Cheng, T Zhang, F Lu - Sustainable Cities and Society, 2025 - Elsevier
Accurately and quickly forecasting the future state of urban sensors is crucial for urban
monitoring and management. Although many forecasting approaches have been proposed …