From research models to operational tools

A wide-ranging meeting showcasing research across the group and discussing its future directions, from wind-tunnel and LES studies to machine learning and operational weather models.

Programme

Thursday, June 27, 2019

09:30-09:55

Coffee and registration

09:55-10:00

Welcome (Alan Robins)

10:00-11:00

Keynote: From complex numerical and experimental modelling approaches to operational tools Keynote slides ↗

Lionel Soulhac · LMFA – University of Lyon

Invited talks — 11:00-12:20

Modelling turbulence and dispersion over step change slides ↗

Vincenzo Sessa · University of Southampton + AECOM

Mean flow and momentum transport in idealised heterogeneous urban canopies

Birgit Sutzl · Imperial College London

Effects of tall buildings on urban flow and dispersion slides ↗

Denise Hertwig · University of Reading

Official OpenFOAM releases and applications on HPC

Fred Mendonca & Kuti Bercin · ESI

12:20-14:00

Lunch

Three-minute presentations — 14:00-14:45

Application of grid nesting in ELMM LES model

Vladimir Fuka · Charles University, Czech

Implementation of synthetic inflow turbulence generator in WRF v3.6.1

Jian Zhong · University of Birmingham

Ground-based thermography for urban climate study

William Morrison · University of Reading

uDALES: towards integrated large-eddy simulation model for urban climate

Tom Grylls · Imperial College London

Passive cooling: towards low-energy office buildings via natural ventilation

Jiyun Song · University of Cambridge

Approaching city scale flows using LES

Matt Coburn · University of Southampton

Neighbourhood-scale urban dispersion modelling

Omduth Coceal · University of Reading

14:45-15:30

Coffee + posters

15:30-17:30

Group discussion on future of Urban Fluids Mech SIG (Maarten van Reeuwijk, Janet Barlow, Zheng-Tong Xie)

17:30-18:30

Reception

18:30

Dinner

Friday, June 28, 2019

09:30-10:30

Keynote: Crossing Scales - Observing Urban-Atmosphere Exchanges from km to mm Keynote slides ↗

Sue Grimmond · University of Reading

10:30-11:00

Coffee

Invited talks — 11:00-12:20

A tale of two scales slides ↗

William Lin · University of Birmingham

Application of iconCFD on Urban Flow Environments slides ↗

Punit Nayyar · iconCFD

Reduced order modelling, machine learning and data assimilation slides ↗

Fanxing Fang · Imperial College London

High resolution simulation of London with Unified Model slides ↗

Humphrey Lean · Met Office UK

12:20-12:55

Update on Urban Fluids project proposals

12:55-13:00

Close (Zheng-Tong Xie)

13:00-14:00

Lunch

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