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Urban Fluid MechanicsSpecial Interest Group
3rd UFM Meeting

Measuring and modelling complex realities

2–3 Jul 2018 · University of Birmingham · Birmingham, UK

University of Birmingham, Building Y3 (Civil and Mechanical Engineering Building), Room G34

A general meeting on day one, followed by small-team proposal development on day two across multi-scale modelling, tall buildings, indoor/outdoor exchange and stratification.

Group photo of participants in front of a carved stone frieze at the University of Birmingham
Participants at the meeting.

Programme

Monday, July 2

9:30
Coffee
10:00
Welcome (Zheng-Tong Xie, Andrew Quinn)
10:05
Urban Fluid Mechanics - measuring and modelling complex realities Keynote slides ↗
Chris Baker · Birmingham
11:00
Coffee
11:30
Modelling urban flows in a commercial context
Ruth Shilston · RWDI
11:50
Aerodynamic Interactions of Wind and Trees slides ↗
Mohamed Salim · Dundee
12:10
UMEP: a collective urban climate toolbox slides ↗
Ting Sun · Reading
12:30
Tuesday Workshop Registration (Maarten van Reeuwijk)
12:35
Lunch
14:00
Urban Flows Database - Introduction
Janet Barlow · Reading

Discussion of Available Data — 14:10

Discussion of Available Data: DIPLOS
Zheng-Tong Xie
Discussion of Available Data: DAPPLE
Alan Robins
Discussion of Available Data: ACTUAL and ClearFlo
Janet Barlow
Discussion of Available Data: Arup data
Steven Downing, Andrew Allsop
Discussion of Available Data: DSTL data
Steven Herring
Discussion of Available Data: Hamburg/non-UK data
Denise Hertwig
Discussion of Available Data: Reading data
Sue Grimmond
Discussion of Available Data: Historical Chemical and Biological Trials
Tim Foat
Group discussions/brainstorm
Feedback and future work
16:15
Close
16:30
UFM SIG Committee meeting + Facilitators day 2 (Building Y3, First floor, F25)
19:00
Dinner

Tuesday, July 3

9:00
Introduction (Maarten van Reeuwijk, Room G34)

Parallel group workshops — 9:10

Parallel Group 1: Multi-scale modelling and integrated tool development (Facilitator: Amir Khan, Shell Lounge)
Parallel Group 2: Tall buildings effect on flow and dispersion in urban areas (Facilitator: Maarten van Reeuwijk, Room G34)
Parallel Group 3: Modelling indoor and outdoor exchange (Facilitator: Neveen Hamza, Room G36)
Parallel Group 4: Local and non-local stratification effect on flow and dispersion in urban areas (Facilitator: Zheng-Tong Xie, Shell Lounge)
10:30
Coffee
11:00
Parallel group discussions continued
12:00
Feedback to group
12:30
Lunch
13:30
End

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