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- Date
- 06 November 2024
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Overview
Trees are an integral part of the urban fabric and play an important role in the urban wind and thermal microclimate.
In this seminar the challenges of modelling trees and incorporating these into high-fidelity Reynolds Averaged Navier-Stokes (RANS) and large eddy simulations (LES) models will be discussed.
The choice of appropriate parameters such as the drag coefficient and leaf-area density will be discussed, and a tree model that incorporates radiation, transpiration, shading and deposition will be presented.
The relative simplicity of the model provides interesting insights into the physics of trees that can be used in the design process. The tree model is incorporated into the Imperial College in-house LES code urban Dutch large eddy simulations (uDALES) and several applications will be showcased.
Speaker
Maarten van Reeuwijk
Imperial College London
professor of urban fluid mechanics, department of civil and environmental engineering
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Maarten van Reeuwijk
Maarten van Reeuwijk is a professor in urban fluid mechanics in the department of Civil and Environmental Engineering at Imperial College London.
Maarten's research interests comprise large-eddy simulation of urban areas with applications to urban air quality, turbulent dispersion, urban heat islands, microclimate and blue-green solutions.
He is a specialist in turbulence and buoyancy driven flows and uses this knowledge to improve urban design through understanding the interaction between the atmosphere and the urban surfaces.
Maarten is co-director of the UK urban fluid mechanics special interest group and is part of the management committee of the UK turbulence consortium.
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