Urban Fluid Mechanics Special Interest Group

Reading, January 6-7, 2020

The 6th meeting will take place at the University of Reading on January 6-7, 2020. Below you will find the Programme and talks .

Joint Meeting of the Urban Fluid Mechanics Special Interest Group and the Urban Working Group

6-7 January 2020, University of Reading, Department of Meteorology

Monday 6^th January [talks in GU01, refreshments in 1L61]

10.30 – 10.55 Registration and coffee (1L61)

10.55 – 11.00 Welcome [Janet Barlow] GU01

11.00 – 12.00 Keynote 1: Clare Heaviside (University of Oxford) Urban heatwaves and heat related mortality (Chair: Janet Barlow)

12.00 – 12.40 Invited talks [15 + 5 minutes] (Chair: Gabriel Rooney)

Vincent Luo (University of Reading) Thermally driven urban flows

12.40 – 14.00 Lunch (1L61)

14.00 – 15.00 Invited talks [15 + 5 minutes], GU01 (Chair: Maggie Hendry)

Natalie Theeuwes (Uni of Reading) Urban convection

Maarten van Reeuwijk (Imperial College) Modelling urban microclimates

15.00 – 15.45 Three-minute presentations (Chair: Maarten van Reeuwijk)

15.45 – 16.30 Coffee + posters (1L61)

16.30 – 17:30 Group discussion on “Challenges of dealing with weather and climate change at urban scales” (Chair: Janet Barlow)

17.30 – 18.30 Reception (1L61) [Committee meeting from 17:45]

18.30 – Dinner (Meadow Suite)

Tall buildings in the City of London. Image courtesy of Janet Barlow.

Tuesday 7^th January

10.00 – 11:00 Keynote 2: Björn Maronga (University of Hannover) PALM-4U: a new high-performance urban microscale model (Chair: Zheng-tong Xie)

11.00 – 11.30 Coffee

11.30 – 12.30 Proposal updates (Chair: Maarten van Reeuwijk)

12:30 – 14:00 Lunch

14.00 – 15.20 Invited talks [15 + 5 minutes], GU01 (Chair: Natalie Theeuwes)

15.20 – 16.00 Network news: data portal update; poster prize announcement; future network meetings; final comments (Chair: Zheng-tong Xie)