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2nd UFM Meeting

Flows around buildings & dispersion in urban areas

18 Dec 2017 · Imperial College London · London, UK

Room 201, Skempton Building, Imperial College London, South Kensington Campus

A working meeting to scope the group’s first two challenge areas — flows around and inside buildings, and dispersion in urban areas — with talks from academia, industry and government.

Programme

9:30
Coffee
10:00
Welcome (Zheng-Tong Xie & Maarten van Reeuwijk, Imperial)
10:05
Wind Engineering in the Digital Age Keynote slides ↗
Steven Downie · ARUP
10:50
Overview of challenges identified in the previous meeting slides ↗
Maarten van Reeuwijk · Imperial
11:15
Coffee
11:45
Scoping a challenge I: Flows around/in buildings (Ender Ozkan & Mark Stirling, RWDI & Birmingham)
13:00
Lunch
14:00
An overview of APRIL slides ↗
Alan Robins · Surrey
Urban fluid mechanics' relevance to PHE work areas slides ↗
James Stewart-Evans · PHE
Modelling urban airflow and natural ventilation using a GPU-based lattice-Boltzmann method slides ↗
Amirul Khan · Leeds
The NAME dispersion model and UDINEE slides ↗
Lois Huggett · Met Office
15:00
Scoping a challenge II: Dispersion in urban areas (Steven Herring & Alan Robins, DSTL & Surrey)
16:15
Close and drinks (Zheng-Tong Xie)

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