Human-centred building design: urban flow and ventilation studies (REFRESH)
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Project on human-centred building design combining field, CFD and physical-model studies of urban flow and ventilation. Data release is pending; contact the project for access.
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University of Reading. (n.d.). REFRESH: Remodelling Building Design Sustainability from a Human Centred Approach [Data set]. https://www.urbanfluidmechanics.org/data-portal/refresh-remodelling-building-design-sustainability-from-a-human-centre/
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Project developing integrated models and decision-support tools for city design for natural ventilation and air quality, with CFD, field and physical-model work. Full data release is pending.
Field and physical-model measurements of wind-driven air infiltration into a building near the DAPPLE site in London. Useful for studying how the urban environment affects building ventilation.
1:400 wind-tunnel model with uniform and non-uniform roof heights at 90° and 45° wind: LDA velocities and fast-FID concentrations quantifying pollutant exchange through canyon tops and lateral openings, packaged as a CFD validation case.
Urban Dispersion Program field studies in 2005: two intensive periods around Madison Square Garden (March) and six in Midtown (August) with up to seven perfluorocarbon and SF6 tracers, street-level and rooftop samplers, sonic anemometers and sodars, plus indoor and subway sampling in MID05.
Full-scale Silsoe campaign on a 6 m cube, isolated and within an array of straw cubes, with three opening set-ups each. Ventilation was measured with pressure and tracer methods alongside internal and external flow, temperature and pressure; useful for cross-ventilation studies.
From the original UFM data portal, added 2026-11-07.
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