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Richard G. McKercher, Fidel Khouli, Alanna S. Wall and Guy L. Larose
Urban air mobility is expected to play a role in improving transportation of people and goods in growing urban areas while contributing to sustainable urban growth and zero-emissions future aviation. The research presented herein computationally investig...
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Le Wang, Wenxin Tian and Peilin Zheng
Tree is an essential factor affecting airflow and pollutant diffusion in the urban street canyon. The wind environment in the urban street canyon will be effectively improved by expounding the mechanism and implementing greening measures. Moreover, it wi...
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Yongyu Hu, Fusuo Xu and Zhi Gao
The deterioration of the urban environment is a problem which has captured the attention of governmental departments and researchers, who are committed to improving the urban environment from the perspective of optimizing urban morphology. Although many ...
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Tam Nguyen Van and Frank De Troyer
Natural ventilation and the use of fans are recognized as sustainable design strategies to reduce energy use while reaching thermal comfort. A big challenge for designers is to predict ventilation rates of buildings in dense urban areas. One significant ...
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Jingliang Dong, Zijing Tan, Yimin Xiao and Jiyuan Tu
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Lup Wai Chew, Negin Nazarian and Leslie Norford
Dense urban areas restrict air movement, causing airflow in urban street canyons to be much lower than the flow above buildings. Boosting near-ground wind speed can enhance thermal comfort in warm climates by increasing skin convective heat transfer. We ...
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N. A. MAZZEO,L. E. VENEGAS,P. B. MARTÍN
In urban areas high air pollutant concentrations may be observed, mostly within street canyons, where buildings and other obstacles disturb the airflow and turbulence. Air motions inside the street canyons are influenced by aerodynamic and thermal eff...
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