Recent Advances in Urban Ventilation Assessment and Flow Modelling

• Main Author: Hang, Jian (auth)
• Other Authors: Buccolieri, Riccardo (auth)
• Format: Electronic Book Chapter
• Language: English
• Published: MDPI - Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute 2019
• Subjects: natural ventilation hour; concentration fluctuation; n/a; particle number concentration (PNC); passive ventilation; air change rate per hour (ACH); traffic tidal flow; urban air quality; small open space; flow and turbulence profiles; nanoparticles; Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD); validation; air quality; high emitting vehicles; air change rate (ACH); pollutant dispersion; sampling; highly-reflective building envelope; building arrangements; residential building; urban street canyon; seasonal variation; BEopt analysis; Large Eddy Simulation (LES); residential wind environments; CFD; street-level ventilation; Japan cities; indoor-outdoor; ventilation; coherent structures; inter-building effect; outdoor ventilation; hypothetical urban areas; surrogate model; ultrafine particles (UFP); building-tree grouping patterns; aerodynamic and deposition; numerical simulation; street vegetation; wind catcher; urban air quality modelling; thermal comfort; on-road air quality; pedestrian exposure; street canyon; mobile laboratory; Natural Ventilation Potential (NVP); dispersion; schematic urban environment; air flow; concentration decay method; source apportionment; urban planning; Total Suspended Particles (TSP); natural ventilation; optimisation; mass concentration; ventilation assessment; road tunnel; heat loss; multiple linear regression; computational fluid dynamics (CFD); tree scenarios; wind pressure coefficient; vehicular pollution; urban morphology; wind environment; the age of air; wind tunnel; building site coverage; climate zone; architectural intervention; convective boundary layer; ventilation system; wind-tunnel dataset; urban age of air; building energy use; non-uniform distribution of the pollution source; urban layout; pollutant removal; space pattern; PM2.5; data assimilation; water channel experiment; CFD simulation; airflow network; ventilation efficiency; traffic composition; wind enhancement; intake fraction; carbon dioxide concentration; CFD model; PM10; computational fluid dynamic (CFD) simulation; ventilation effectiveness; LES
• Online Access: DOAB: download the publication; DOAB: description of the publication

This book contains twenty-one original papers and one review paper published by internationally recognized experts in the Atmosphere Special Issue ""Recent Advances in Urban Ventilation Assessment and Flow Modelling"", years 2017–2019. The Special Issue includes contrib...