Idealized building blocks

Idealized urban array model

224 LES simulations over idealized building arrays were performed at 0.5 m resolution horizontally and vertically

  • 8 plan area densities from 0.0625 to 0.64, covering most urban configurations in global cities.
  • 2 horizontal configurations (staggered and aligned)
  • 7 building height distributions with Hstd = [0m,2.8m,5.6m]
  • 2 wind directions (perpendicular and oblique to building blocks)

Realistic urban neighbourhoods

Realistic urban array model

314 LES simulations over realistic urban neighbourhoods were performed at 0.5 resolution vertically and 1m horizontally.

  • A representative range of urban densities is considered (0.05-0.75) in global cities.
  • Realistic urban geometries from 62 cities in 20 countries.
  • Covering multiple wind directions.