Over the last year we have improved the parallelisation of uDALES (practically ideal scaling >100k cores) and can now perform radiatively and wind-driven simulations of buildings with arbitrary orientations including openings. Watch this space!
uDALES: towards exa-scale simulation of air quality and microclimate in urban environments
ARCHER2-eCSE05-03 : Prof Maarten van Reeuwijk (Imperial College London)
Project final report published
archer2.ac.uk/ecse/reports/e…
Come work with me! PDRA position on urban heterogeneity now open that is part of the NERC highlight project ASSURE. imperial.ac.uk/jobs/descript…. @FluidsICL
How do sedimenting particles cluster in turbulent flows? New work (t.ly/nio6) in @SpringerNature, led by Vishnu Nair (now Cambridge) and Ben Devenish from the Met Office . @FluidsICL @ImperialCiveng @ukturbulence
Entrainment across TNTIs and TTIs -- new work out in @JFluidMech on the internal structure of turbulent fountains (t.ly/9XlL). First paper by Jingzi Hang. Also a first with the excellent @HenryBurridge! @FluidsICL @ImperialCiveng @ukturbulence
Come work with me! PDRA position on urban heterogeneity now open that is part of the NERC highlight project ASSURE. imperial.ac.uk/jobs/descript…. @FluidsICL
I love venturing into new areas. Here we explore how to quantify heterogeneity in land use date for the #assure project. With MSc graduate Tengfei Yu and Birgit Suetzl. @ImperialCiveng @FluidsICLdoi.org/10.1177/239980832211…
New work with @tom_grylls on the effect of trees on urban air quality (AQ). We show that the effectiveness of trees in mitigating AQ depends on whether the pollution source is inside or outside the street canyon. sciencedirect.com/science/ar… @ImperialCiveng @FluidsICL
We develop a conceptual model that explains the LES results. The AQ inside the street canyon is determined by a balance between the absorption of pollution on the leaves and the reduction in exchange with the atmosphere due to the presence of the tree canopy.