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Urban Heat Islands and the Urban Canyoning Effect

A special issue of Sustainability (ISSN 2071-1050). This special issue belongs to the section "Environmental Sustainability and Applications".

Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (31 July 2021) | Viewed by 483

Special Issue Editors

Department of Astronautics, Electrical and Energetics Engineering, University of Rome “Sapienza”, 00184 Rome, Italy
Interests: human thermal comfort; urban microclimate; heat transmission; buildings physics; thermodynamics; computational optimization; energy efficiency; lighting systems; environmental acoustics
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Dept. of Astronautical Electrical and Energy Engineering – DIAEE, Sapienza University of Rome, 00184 Rome, Italy
Interests: thermal energy storage; numerical simulations; energy efficiency of buildings; cultural heritage reconstructions; indoor and outdoor environmental comfort
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Special Issue Information

Dear Colleagues,

We invite submissions to a Special Issue on “Urban Heat Islands and the Urban Canyoning Effect.”

Urban Heat Islands (UHI) can considerably affect the thermal quality of the urban environment, especially within urban canyons, and can affect the energy consumptions of the buildings. Over the past few years, solutions have been studied to mitigate the UHI phenomenon, such as cool material and green roofs. Unfortunately, these strategies are difficult to apply when historical buildings are present in the urban environment, for which many times it is not allowed to change the external architectural appearance.

This Special Issue will deal with novel techniques for the topic “Urban Heat Islands and the Urban Canyoning Effect” with simulations and with simulations of topics of interest for the Energies community. Topics of interest for publication include but are not limited to:

  • Experimental and numerical simulations of Urban Heat Islands phenomena and the Urban Canyoning Effect
  • Laboratory simulations and measurement techniques
  • Energy efficiency in buildings
  • Urban microclimate design
  • Urban microclimate mitigation
  • Historical urban canyon
  • Cool materials
  • Inter-Building Effect

Prof. Dr. Ferdinando Salata
Dr. Fabio Nardecchia
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. Sustainability is an international peer-reviewed open access semimonthly 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 2400 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

  • Urban Heat Island 
  • Urban CFD 
  • Building’s energy 
  • Outdoor comfort index 
  • Urban materials

Published Papers

There is no accepted submissions to this special issue at this moment.
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