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RANS CFD datasets and case set-ups for urban flow

Reynolds-averaged (RANS) CFD solutions and case set-ups for wind and dispersion around buildings and across districts. RANS is the workhorse of engineering practice for pedestrian-wind and air-quality assessments; these entries include steady flow fields, parametric studies and training data for surrogate models.

  • 32 resources
  • 2 field
  • 2 lab
  • 28 simulation
  • 1 benchmark

All 32 resources, largest first

  1. URANS cross-comparison on the AIJ Niigata case against wind-tunnel data.

    Benchmark Simulation Simulation outputCase setup RANS

    Niigata, Japan · 2026 · CC BY 4.0

  2. Full ENVI-met outputs and configuration for Via Milano, Pescara, with current and 2050 scenarios before and after redesign. Useful for urban thermal comfort case studies.

    Simulation Simulation outputCase setup RANS

    Pescara, Italy · 2026 · CC BY 4.0

  3. Source files, data and metadata of ExaQUte simulations of turbulent flow around rectangular bodies and the CAARC high-rise building with stochastic inlets. Useful as wind-engineering CFD case setups and output.

    Simulation Simulation outputCase setup LESRANS

    2021 · CC BY 4.0

  4. ENVI-met 5.6.1 simulation results for green infrastructure and nature-based solutions in the LIFE AGREEN_NET project (2019 and 2030). Useful for urban thermal comfort studies.

    Simulation Simulation output RANS

    2025 · CC BY 4.0

  5. Simulated hazardous gas dispersion data from GRAMM-GRAL over a chemical park building layout. Useful for dispersion and ML studies.

    Simulation Simulation output RANS

    2025 · Apache 2.0

  6. Resulting data and source code for an inhomogeneous wind scheme for urban street canyons, validated against CFD. Useful for street-canyon pollutant dispersion parameterisation.

    Collection · 5 parts Simulation Simulation outputSoftware & tools RANSAnalytical

    2022 · CC BY 4.0

  7. Gridded ENVI-met outputs and visualisations for four European cities assessing urban heat mitigation measures. Useful for microclimate and thermal-comfort studies.

    Simulation Simulation output RANS

    2026 · CC BY 4.0

  8. FluidUrban v1.0 geometry and mesh generator with model outputs and plotting scripts for urban ventilation and pollutant dispersion.

    Simulation Software & toolsGeometrySimulation output RANS

    2026 · CC BY 4.0

  9. Numerical dispersion simulations over the Paris Opera district using the PMSS model.

    Simulation Simulation output RANS

    Paris Opera district, France · 2026 · CC BY 4.0

  10. Example CFD simulation and code for distributed training of a U-Net predicting urban aerodynamic flow and pollutant dispersion. Useful for ML surrogates of urban flow.

    Simulation Simulation outputSoftware & tools ML / surrogateRANS

    2026 · CC BY 4.0

  11. OpenFOAM-v8 set-ups for wind and concentration fields in several street-canyon scenarios.

    Collection · 2 parts Field Case setupMeasurements RANS

    2024 · CC BY 4.0

  12. Input and output spatial data of ENVI-met microclimate simulations for Florence studying tree design scenarios in an industrial area. Useful for urban heat mitigation modelling.

    Collection · 2 parts Simulation Simulation outputCase setup RANS

    Florence, Italy · 2025 · CC BY 4.0

  13. RANS simulations of thermal street canyon pollutant dispersion with surrogate models.

    Collection · 2 parts Simulation Simulation outputSoftware & tools RANSML / surrogate

    2026 · CC BY 4.0

  14. ANSYS Fluent case files and mesh (14.8M cells) for PM2.5 dispersion from vehicle emissions in an urban area. Useful as a reusable CFD case setup.

    Simulation Case setupSimulation output RANS

    2025 · CC BY 4.0

  15. Dataset of microscale atmospheric flow simulations around randomly generated urban geometries for several stability classes. Useful for training and testing ML surrogates of urban flow.

    Simulation Simulation output RANSML / surrogate

    2026 · MIT

  16. Standardised protocol and QGIS plugin to automate ENVI-met microclimate model setup. Useful for generating urban microclimate cases.

    Simulation Software & toolsCase setup RANS

    2026 · GPL-3.0+

  17. CFD code, case settings and results for natural ventilation among units of double-loaded apartment floors with four plan shapes. Useful as ventilation case setups.

    Simulation Case setupSimulation output RANS

    2026 · CC BY 4.0

  18. CAD geometry and simulation-ready models for four windcatcher shaft designs for natural ventilation CFD. Useful as case setups for building ventilation studies.

    Simulation GeometryCase setup RANS

    2026 · CC BY 4.0

  19. ENVI-met parameterisations, inputs and postprocessing scripts for assessing grass grid pavers' heat mitigation. Useful for reproducing urban microclimate scenarios.

    Simulation Case setupSoftware & tools RANS

    2024 · CC BY 4.0

  20. CFD model set-up reproducing results on tree impact on gas concentrations in a street canyon.

    Simulation Case setupSimulation output RANS

    2022 · CC BY 4.0

  21. Input geometries and wind pressure coefficient results from CpSimulator, a cloud-based platform for predicting Cp on buildings. Useful for natural ventilation and wind-load studies.

    Simulation GeometrySimulation outputSoftware & tools RANS

    2021 · CC BY 4.0

  22. Processed outputs and Python scripts from PALM, WRF and Fluent simulations for an urban model comparison.

    Simulation Simulation outputSoftware & tools LESRANSMesoscale model

    2025 · CC BY 4.0

  23. OpenFOAM-based CFD code coupling full O3-NOx-VOC photochemistry for microscale reactive pollutant dispersion in urban areas.

    Simulation Software & tools RANS

    2020 · CC BY 4.0

  24. EnviReader reads and visualises ENVI-met simulation outputs including 2D maps and 3D viewer with wind. Useful for postprocessing urban microclimate simulations.

    Simulation Software & tools RANS

    2026 · GPL-3.0+

  25. Field and CFD data for physics-informed surrogate modelling of urban wind under sparse measurements.

    Field MeasurementsSimulation output RANSML / surrogate

    2026 · CC BY 4.0

  26. Experimental and CFD pressure coefficients on facades and roofs for detailed and simplified building geometries.

    Lab MeasurementsSimulation output Wind tunnelRANS

    2026 · CC BY 4.0

  27. CFD dataset assessing pollutant removal by photocatalytic facades in open urban settings. Useful for urban air-quality mitigation studies.

    Simulation Simulation output RANS

    2026 · CC BY 4.0

  28. Wind tunnel and CFD data for pedestrian wind comfort around realistic university campus buildings. Useful for validating pedestrian wind CFD.

    Lab MeasurementsSimulation output Wind tunnelRANS

    2025 · CC BY 4.0

  29. Source code of four modelling systems (CHIMERE, GRAMM, GRAL, VERT) for black carbon dispersion over Modena. Useful for urban air-quality and microscale dispersion modelling.

    Simulation Software & tools Mesoscale modelRANS

    Modena, Italy · 2024 · GPL-3.0+

  30. WOCSS adapters for coupled WRF and OpenFOAM simulations using preCICE.

    Simulation Software & tools RANSMesoscale model

    2023 · Open (other)

  31. CFD vertical wind profile results, wind-profile scheme functions and validation against observations for inhomogeneous urban canopies. Useful for parameterising urban wind profiles.

    Simulation Simulation output RANS

    2022

  32. Open-source successor to LANL's QUIC: a mass-conserving diagnostic wind solver on GPU (QES-Winds), a turbulence closure (QES-Turb) and Lagrangian dispersion (QES-Plume) for building-resolving runs much faster than real time.

    Simulation Software & tools RANS

    2021 · GPL-3.0+ · Paper: Utilizing dynamic parallelism in CUDA to accelerate a 3D red-black successive over relaxation wind-field solver ↗