Urban Fluid Mechanics
Upcoming meetings
The next meeting will be hosted by the Met Office and will take place at the end of the year/beginning of next year.
Please click here for the slides of the recent online meeting on Short-Range Dispersion and its Role in Virus Transmission
Welcome to the website of the Special Interest Group in Urban Fluid Mechanics. We are funded by the UK Fluids Network and are an open community whose interests cover a broad range of issues associated with flows in urban areas.
Our members are from UK universities, industry and governmental organisations that meet twice a year.
The scope of the SIG ranges from fundamental to applied research, with an emphasis on experimental, numerical and theoretical approaches. In particular, we have identified the following four challenge areas:
- C1: Very rough BLs. Flow predictions in neutral boundary layers with very large obstacles.
- C2: Stratification/buoyancy effects. The effect of non-neutral environments on air flow, air quality and comfort.
- C3: Dispersion in urban BLs. Passive and active [e.g. heavy gases] scalar dispersion in urban environments.
- C4: Building-scale fluid dynamics. Flows around buildings, surface pressure on buildings, effects on pedestrians/vehicles/indoor-outdoor exchange.
If you would like to get involved with the SIG, contact Zheng-Tong Xie (Southampton University) or Maarten van Reeuwijk (Imperial College London).
Announcements:
- January 6-7, 2020 at the University of Reading
- June 27-28, 2019 at the University of Surrey
- December 17-18, 2018 at the University of Cambridge
- July 2-3, 2018 at University of Birmingham
- December 18, 2017 at Imperial College London
- Kick-Off meeting Southampton March 30-31, 2017
- Urban Fluids Mechanics SIG approved by the UK Fluids Network