11th UFM Meeting · joint with the FUTURE project
Changing urban form
Treetops, Wates House, Stag Hill Campus, University of Surrey
A joint hybrid meeting with the FUTURE cities project on the changing form of cities, combining invited lectures, quick-fire talks and a poster session.
Programme
Monday, April 3, 2023
1200
Lunch
1300
Welcome (Marco Placidi & Zheng-Tong Xie, University of Surrey)
1310
Keynote: Large-eddy simulation of gas dispersion in urban environments Keynote
Thomas Vik · FMI
FUTURE Project Updates — 1400-1520
An overview of the FUTURE project
Alan Robins · University of Surrey
Wake-scaling behind clusters of tall buildings
Abhishek Mishra · University of Surrey
Wakes and their merging behind tall-building clusters
Saad Inam · University of Southampton
Field observations and modelling of tall building wakes
Janet Barlow · University of Reading
1520
Break
1550
Keynote: Hectometric forecasting for the Paris Olympics: the Paris RDP Keynote
Valery Masson · Meteo France
1650
Discussion about project FUTURE (Chair: Janet Barlow, University of Reading)
1720
Quick-fire talks followed by Poster session (Chair: Steve Herring)
1900
Dinner (30 max, first come first serve)
Tuesday, April 4, 2023
0900
Keynote: Urban dispersion and the effect of trees Keynote
Pietro Salizzoni · Ecole Central Lyon
Invited Lectures — 1000-1100
Scale model experiments for urban aerodynamics and dispersion
Christina Vanderwel · University of Southampton
Looking back of three years micro-climate/wind/thermal comfort guidelines in London
Ruth Shilston · RWDI
Wind loading on a tall building in a dense city centre: LES vs wind tunnel
Jeroen Janssen · Thornton Tomasetti
1100
Break
Invited Lectures — 1120-1220
A brief overview of the Across-Scale processeS in URban Environments (ASSURE) project
Dudley Shallcross · University of Bristol
Modelling dispersion of air pollutants at the street scale in the West Midlands using the ADMS-Urban model
Jian Zhong · University of Birmingham
Neutrally- and Stably-Stratified Boundary Layers Adjustments to a Step Change in Surface Roughness
Shanshan Ding · University of Surrey
1220
Plenary discussion. Five years of UFM: where are we now? (Chair: Maarten van Reeuwijk)
1300
Lunch