LES
Large-Eddy Simulation for resolved turbulence, urban flow, dispersion, and microclimate.
Publications (22)
- Parameter investigation for urban surface‐energy balance: A large‐eddy simulation study Quarterly Journal of the Royal Meteorological Society (2026)
- Multi-scale Analysis of Flow over Heterogeneous Urban Environments Boundary-Layer Meteorology (2025)
- Microscale to neighbourhood scale: Impact of shading on urban climate Building and Environment (2025)
- Large-eddy simulation of a diurnal cycle in a coastal urban environment Building and Environment (2025)
- The drag length is key to quantifying tree canopy drag Journal of Wind Engineering and Industrial Aerodynamics (2025)
- Multi-scale analysis of flow over heterogeneous urban environments Conference (2025)
- uDALES: a high-fidelity multi-physics large-eddy simulation framework for urban microclimate modelling Conference (2025)
- Comparative analysis of wind tunnel experiments and uDALES simulations for pollutant dispersion in tree-lined street canyons Conference (2025)
- Impact of Shading on Urban Surface Energy Balance and Microclimate Conference (2025)
- A conservative immersed boundary method for the multi-physics urban large-eddy simulation model uDALES v2.0 Geoscientific Model Development (2024)
- Pollutant dispersion by tall buildings: laboratory experiments and Large-Eddy Simulation Experiments in Fluids (2022)
- How trees affect urban air quality: It depends on the source Atmospheric Environment (2022)
- uDALES 1.0: a large-eddy simulation model for urban environments Geoscientific Model Development (2022)
- Tree model with drag, transpiration, shading and deposition: Identification of cooling regimes and large-eddy simulation Agricultural and Forest Meteorology (2021)
- uDALES: large-eddy-simulation software for urban flow, dispersion, and microclimate modelling Journal of Open Source Software (2021)
- Tree model with drag, transpiration, shading and deposition: Identification of cooling regimes and large-eddy simulation Conference (2021)
- Steady-State Large-Eddy Simulations of Convective and Stable Urban Boundary Layers Boundary-Layer Meteorology (2020)
- Drag Distribution in Idealized Heterogeneous Urban Environments Boundary-Layer Meteorology (2020)
- Evaluation of an operational air quality model using large-eddy simulation Atmospheric Environment: X (2019)
- LES study of a mixed layer above urban street canyons Conference Proceeding of THMT-15. Proceedings of the Eighth International Symposium On Turbulence Heat and Mass Transfer (2015)
- Leray-alpha simulations of wall-bounded turbulent flows (2009)
- Incompressibility of the Leray-α model for wall-bounded flows Physics of Fluids (2006)
Projects (7)
- UrbanAIR: Urban Simulation for Air Quality and Heat Resilience Strategies
- The UK Turbulence Consortium
- ASSURE: Across-Scale processeS in URban Environments
- Turbulence at the exascale: application to wind energy, green aviation, air quality and net-zero combustion
- UK Turbulence Consortium
- EPSRC Centre for Doctoral Training in Fluid Dynamics across Scales
- UK Turbulence Consortium
Demos (1)
- Surface energy balance, face by face How uDALES resolves the energy budget on every roof, wall and pavement in an urban block — and how we read those outputs with the udbase Python tools.