Heterogeneity, unsteadiness and uncertainty in urban environments

An online meeting on heterogeneity, unsteadiness and uncertainty in urban environments, opening with a keynote on uncertainty quantification for computational wind engineering.

Programme

1100-1110

Opening (Maarten van Reeuwijk, Imperial College London)

1110-1200

Keynote: Uncertainty quantification and data assimilation for predictive computational wind engineering Keynote slides ↗

Catherine Gorle · Stanford University

Invited Talks Session (Chair: Andrew Quinn, University of Birmingham) — 1200-1300

Inert tracers and what they tell us about transport into and out of buildings

Dudley Shallcross · University of Bristol

High-resolution dispersion modelling in the convective boundary layer slides ↗

Lewis Blunn · University of Reading

Simulating diurnal cycles of the urban boundary layer with LES slides ↗

Sam Owens · Imperial College London

Variability in the short-range dispersion of passive, short-duration emissions slides ↗

Alan Robins · University of Surrey

1300-1400

Lunch break

Invited Talks Session (Chair: Daniel Hackett, RWDI) — 1400-1500

The effect of tall buildings on the urban environment slides ↗

Marco Placidi · University of Surrey

Developing and implementing the City of London guidelines slides ↗

Ruth Shilston · RWDI

Modelling airflow over idealized, semi-realistic suburban and realistic urban areas slides ↗

Matthew Coburn · University of Southampton

Vegetation transpiration in PALM and PALM validation in real urban scenarios in Prague slides ↗

Vladimir Fuka · Charles University

1500-1555

Panel discussion (Chair: Alan Robins, University of Surrey; Panel: Catherine Gorle, Dudley Shallcross, Ruth Shilston, Vladimir Fuka)

1555-1600

Closing remarks (Zheng-Tong Xie, University of Southampton)

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