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Yeri Choi, Sugie Lee and Hyunbin Moon
Urban heat island effects, which are the phenomenon wherein higher ambient air temperatures are measured in cities than in rural areas, have worsened urban thermal environments over the past decades. This study aims to analyze the effects of urban physic...
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Shahab Kariminia
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Computer simulations were performed by ENVI-met model along with physical measurements in two urban squares under hot summer conditions in Isfahan, central Iran. Each scenario concentrated on adding or extending galleries in each square. The result...
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Francisco Toja-Silva, Carlos Peralta, Oscar Lopez-Garcia, Jorge Navarro and Ignacio Cruz
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Rubab Saher, Haroon Stephen and Sajjad Ahmad
The estimation of urban irrigation water requirements has often been approached from an agricultural perspective. This approach is flawed, as the intention of estimating agricultural water is to optimize yield. Recent studies have reported that urban irr...
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Riccardo Beretta, Giovanni Ravazzani, Carlo Maiorano and Marco Mancini
Two-dimensional hydraulic modeling is fundamental to simulate flood events in urban area. Key factors to reach optimal results are detailed information about domain geometry and utility of hydrodynamic models to integrate the full or simplified Saint Ven...
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Riccardo Beretta, Giovanni Ravazzani, Carlo Maiorano and Marco Mancini
Two-dimensional hydraulic modeling is fundamental to simulate flood events in urban area. Key factors to reach optimal results are detailed information about domain geometry and utility of hydrodynamic models to integrate the full or simplified Saint Ven...
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Jou-Man Huang and Liang-Chun Chen
With the global warming effect and the rapid growth of global urbanization, the concept of urban heat islands (UHIs) has become one of the most important environmental issues in the world. Early studies on UHIs mostly focused on highly developed, large c...
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Aenne A. Brielmann, Nir H. Buras, Nikos A. Salingaros and Richard P. Taylor
This article reviews current research in visual urban perception. The temporal sequence of the first few milliseconds of visual stimulus processing sheds light on the historically ambiguous topic of aesthetic experience. Automatic fractal processing trig...
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Zhixin Li, Song Ji, Dazhao Fan, Zhen Yan, Fengyi Wang and Ren Wang
Accurate building geometry information is crucial for urban planning in constrained spaces, fueling the growing demand for large-scale, high-precision 3D city modeling. Traditional methods like oblique photogrammetry and LiDAR prove time consuming and ex...
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Prateek Kumar Singh, Xiaonan Tang and Hamidreza Rahimi
Numerous sources of overtopping and flood events suggest different cross-sectional land characteristics of the river and urban river water systems. Multiple stages of floodplains in compound channels are viable in urban areas to facilitate bank slope sta...
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Giuseppe Gibertini, Silvano Rezzonico, Marco Rossetti and Alex Zanotti
The present paper describes a test campaign performed to investigate the noise footprint emitted by a helicopter in an idealised urban context, reproducing the approach to an elevated helipad. The test campaign was performed in Politecnico di Milano?s an...
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Keyu Bao, Rushikesh Padsala, Daniela Thrän and Bastian Schröter
Humans? activities in urban areas put a strain on local water resources. This paper introduces a method to accurately simulate the stress urban water demand in Germany puts on local resources on a single-building level, and scalable to regional levels wi...
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Ting Chen, Haiqing He, Dajun Li, Puyang An and Zhenyang Hui
The all-embracing inspection of geometry structures of revetments along urban rivers using the conventional field visual inspection is technically complex and time-consuming. In this study, an approach using dense point clouds derived from low-cost unman...
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Esteban Zalamea León,Cristian Cuevas Barraza
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The use of photovoltaic (PV) technology in urban areas is an appropriate way to optimize the use of solar energy, since the energy conversion system is located in the same place as the demand. Thus, the losses caused by distribution networks and even tec...
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Gergely Kristóf and Bálint Papp
While large eddy simulation has several advantages in microscale air pollutant dispersion modelling, the parametric investigation of geometries is not yet feasible because of its relatively high computational cost. By assuming an analogy between heat and...
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Elis Dener Lima Alves and António Lopes
This study analyzes the influence of urban-geographical variables on determining heat islands and proposes a model to estimate and spatialize the maximum intensity of urban heat islands (UHI). Simulations of the UHI based on the increase of normalized di...
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Rajesh Gajjar, Divya Mohandas
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Road capacity in general refers to the maximum traffic flow obtainable on a given roadway using all available lanes; usually expressed in vehicles per hour or vehicles per day. This depends upon several factors, mainly, traffic conditions, road geometry ...
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Francesc Valls Dalmau, Pilar Garcia-Almirall, Ernest Redondo Domínguez and David Fonseca Escudero
Digesting the data hose that cities are constantly producing is complex; data is usually structured with different criteria, which makes comparative analysis of multiple cities challenging. However, the publicly available data from the Spanish cadaster c...
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Ni Sheng and U. Wa Tang
In the Macao Peninsula, the high population density (49,763 inhabitants/km2) and the lack of control over the number of vehicles (460 vehicles/km) have led to an increase in urban pollution. To provide useful information to local government and urban pla...
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Nanxuan Qiao, Tielin Ma, Jingcheng Fu, Ligang Zhang, Xiangsheng Wang and Pu Xue
The rising interest in the evolvability of electric vertical takeoff and landing (eVTOL) promises substantial potential in the field of urban air mobility (UAM). Challenges in energy storage density and geometry restriction both emphasize the propeller e...
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