Resilient Urban Solutions
Our mission is to enhance climate change mitigation and adaptation in urban areas
Urban & Micro-climate simulations
Climate conditions in urban areas and around buildings and infrastructure are different from the meso-climate that are available through observations, forecasts and/or projections. Knowing about urban/micro-climate helps to better estimate the conditions in urban areas and assess the performance of buildings and infrastructure. This is especially important when we need to have a better estimation of extreme weather conditions and the consequent risks for human comfort, buildings and urban utilities.
We have developed our methods to simulate urban/micro-climate for different climatic conditions and with fine temporal and spatial resolutions, considering extreme climate events and future climate.
We have our enhanced approaches in calculating urban/micro-climate in cities with proven applications in precise estimation of the performance of buildings and energy systems. We have extended our methods to decrease the computational load, meanwhile enhance the applications using available energy simulation tools in the market.
Relevant publications
Here are some works that we have published about impact assessment of climate change:
- Javanroodi, K., Nik, V.M., “Interactions between extreme climate and urban morphology: Investigating the evolution of extreme wind speeds from mesoscale to microscale”, Urban Climate, 2020; 31:100544. doi:10.1016/j.uclim.2019.100544.
- Javanroodi, K., Nik, V.M., “Impacts of Microclimate Conditions on the Energy Performance of Buildings in Urban Areas”, Buildings, 2019;9:189, doi:10.3390/buildings9080189.
- Javanroodi, K., Nik, V.M., Mahdavinejad, M., “A novel design-based optimization framework for enhancing the energy efficiency of high-rise office buildings in urban areas”, Sustain Cities Soc, vol. 49, 101597, Aug. 2019, doi:10.1016/j.scs.2019.101597.
- Javanroodi, K., Mahdavinejad, M., Nik, V.M., “Impacts of urban morphology on reducing cooling load and increasing ventilation potential in hot-arid climate”, Applied Energy, vol. 231, pp. 714-746, Dec. 2018, doi:10.1016/j.apenergy.2018.09.116.