Birmingham, April 28 2025

General Information

The 12th UFM meeting  will take place at the University of Birmingham.  Attendance to the meeting is free as always. Please register here.

Below you will find the programme.  We will upload copies of the presentations after the meeting.

12th UFM meeting - Urban Fluid Mechanics in a Changing Climate

April 28 2025, In-person at the University of Birmingham, Building Y3, Room G34

PROGRAMME

10.00 Arrival

10.25 Welcome (M. van Reeuwijk and A. Quinn)

10.30 - 11:15 Keynote (Chair: A. Quinn)

Maria Athanassiadou (Met Office, UK). Applied science within the Met Office.

11.15 - 12:15 Invited talks (Chair: M. Placidi)

• Daniel Hackett (RWDI, UK). WES update on wind in a changing climate.

• Xiaoxiong Xie (University of Plymouth, UK). Indoor and urban thermal resilience in a changing climate.

• Guneet Hawley (ARUP, UK). UHeat - An Urban Heat Island Assessment Tool.

• Benoît Vannière (ECMWF, Germany) [online]. Destination Earth – Climate Change & Extremes digital twins. 

12.15 - 12:30 Flash talks for posters (Chair: J. Barlow)

12.30 - 14:00 Lunch (& posters)

14.00 - 15:00 Invited talks (Chair: H. Lean)

• ChangChang Wang (University of Southampton, UK). Dispersion and urban heterogeneity.

• Salvatore Iacoletti (Axa, UK) [online]. Catastrophe modelling and urban environments: The (Re)Insurance Industry Perspective and Needs 

• Tirtha Banerjee (University of California Irvine, USA) [online]. Forest Fires.

• Ben Kuchta (National Grid, UK). Resilience within the national grid.

15.00 - 16:00 The UFM’s challenge areas - 8 years later (Chair: M. van Reeuwijk)

16.00 - 17:00 Feedback session & group conversation (Chair: C. Vanderwel)

17.00 – 17:10 Closing Remarks

18.30 – 20:45 Dinner/Drinks. The Botanist, Temple Street (map)