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Urban Microclimate Design: Pollutant Dispersion and Ventilation

A special issue of International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health (ISSN 1660-4601). This special issue belongs to the section "Environmental Science and Engineering".

Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (30 November 2021) | Viewed by 2598

Special Issue Editors

Prof. Dr. Václav Uruba

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1. Institute of Thermomechanics of the Czech Academy of Sciences, 182 00 Prague, Czech Republic
2. Department of Power System Engineering, University of West Bohemia, 306 14 Pilsen, Czech Republic
Interests: fluid mechanics; turbulence; experimental techniques in FM
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Prof. Dr. Simone Ferrari

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Department of Civil-Environmental Engineering and Architecture (DICAAR), University of Cagliari, 09123 Cagliari, Italy
Interests: experimental and numerical study of turbulent and turbulent-like flows in the environmental, civil, industrial, and biomedical fields (among others: turbulent jets and plumes, interaction of breakwaters with waves, in vitro cardiovascular flows); urban microclimate design (air quality, pollutant dispersion, outdoor human comfort, and energetic optimization in the built environment); sea discharges (study and optimization of diffusers and outfalls for sea discharge of pollutants, such as brine from desalination plants); design and development of non-intrusive image-based velocity, acceleration, and concentration measurement techniques for turbulent flows; flow modeling and control for mixing optimization; bio-fluid dynamics (laboratory simulation of cardiac flows and flow in the human eye)
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Special Issue Information

Dear Colleagues,

The Guest Editors are inviting submissions to a Special Issue of the International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health (IJERPH) on the subject area of “Urban Microclimate Design: Pollutant Dispersion and Ventilation."

According to the World Health Organization data (2016), urban outdoor air pollution accounts for an estimated 4.2 million deaths per year due to stroke, heart disease, lung cancer and chronic respiratory diseases. Moreover, around 91% of the world’s population lives in places where air quality levels exceed WHO limits. Among other reasons, a design of the built environment not considering its influence on urban ventilation and capability to disperse pollutants (from vehicles, power generation, building heating systems, industry, etc.) plays a major role. For this reason, this Special Issue will deal with all the aspects involving the urban microclimate design and/or the design of pollutant diffusers to improve the quality of air and a safe pollutant dispersion in the atmosphere, as well as their implications for human health and well-being.

Topics of interest for publication include but are not limited to:

  • Processes and policies of Urban Microclimate Design
  • Experimental and numerical simulations of air flows in the built environment
  • Experimental and numerical simulations of pollutant dispersion in the built environment
  • Optimization of shape and position of diffusers
  • Smog and traffic pollution
  • Air quality monitoring
  • Policies and strategies to reduce air pollution
Prof. Dr. Václav Uruba
Prof. Dr. Simone Ferrari
Guest Editors

Manuscript Submission Information

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Submitted manuscripts should not have been published previously, nor be under consideration for publication elsewhere (except conference proceedings papers). All manuscripts are thoroughly refereed through a single-blind peer-review process. A guide for authors and other relevant information for submission of manuscripts is available on the Instructions for Authors page. International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health is an international peer-reviewed open access monthly journal published by MDPI.

Please visit the Instructions for Authors page before submitting a manuscript. The Article Processing Charge (APC) for publication in this open access journal is 2500 CHF (Swiss Francs). Submitted papers should be well formatted and use good English. Authors may use MDPI's English editing service prior to publication or during author revisions.

Keywords

  • Microclimate design
  • Urban ventilation
  • Urban pollutant dispersion
  • Urban air quality
  • Air monitoring
  • Traffic pollution

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A Multiscale Land Use Regression Approach for Estimating Intraurban Spatial Variability of PM2.5 Concentration by Integrating Multisource Datasets
by Yuan Shi, Alexis Kai-Hon Lau, Edward Ng, Hung-Chak Ho and Muhammad Bilal
Int. J. Environ. Res. Public Health 2022, 19(1), 321; https://0-doi-org.brum.beds.ac.uk/10.3390/ijerph19010321 - 29 Dec 2021
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Poor air quality has been a major urban environmental issue in large high-density cities all over the world, and particularly in Asia, where the multiscale complex of pollution dispersal creates a high-level spatial variability of exposure level. Investigating such multiscale complexity and fine-scale [...] Read more.
Poor air quality has been a major urban environmental issue in large high-density cities all over the world, and particularly in Asia, where the multiscale complex of pollution dispersal creates a high-level spatial variability of exposure level. Investigating such multiscale complexity and fine-scale spatial variability is challenging. In this study, we aim to tackle the challenge by focusing on PM2.5 (particulate matter with an aerodynamic diameter less than 2.5 µm,) which is one of the most concerning air pollutants. We use the widely adopted land use regression (LUR) modeling technique as the fundamental method to integrate air quality data, satellite data, meteorological data, and spatial data from multiple sources. Unlike most LUR and Aerosol Optical Depth (AOD)-PM2.5 studies, the modeling process was conducted independently at city and neighborhood scales. Correspondingly, predictor variables at the two scales were treated separately. At the city scale, the model developed in the present study obtains better prediction performance in the AOD-PM2.5 relationship when compared with previous studies (R2¯ from 0.72 to 0.80). At the neighborhood scale, point-based building morphological indices and road network centrality metrics were found to be fit-for-purpose indicators of PM2.5 spatial estimation. The resultant PM2.5 map was produced by combining the models from the two scales, which offers a geospatial estimation of small-scale intraurban variability. Full article
(This article belongs to the Special Issue Urban Microclimate Design: Pollutant Dispersion and Ventilation)
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