Towards an optimisation of urban-planning and architectural parameters for energy use minimisation in miditerranean cities (Urban Net)

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Towards an optimisation of urban-planning and architectural parameters for energy use minimisation in miditerranean cities (Urban Net)

Abstract [en]

Recent studies on the influence of climate change on Northern-European cities suggest that within 50 years they may experience a climate close to that of South-European cities today. This has enormous resource implications when the design and layout of the urban fabric and the individual buildings are not well suited to mitigate extreme conditions. There is therefore a strong need for strategic designs to be developed which would mitigate such environmental changes. Whilst the general cause of overheating of cities is well known, it is not well understood how much influence different urbanization characteristics as well as the building materials have on the intensity of the city overheating. This project aims to investigate the influence of urbanization in terms of architectural parameters in relation to energy use. Most research hitherto has addressed individual street canyons flows, and the effect of the canyons aspect ratio and orientation. This research will focus on the whole real city, its overall form and the street network, which can be seen as a ventilation network removing heat. In particular, the project will address a typical Cypriot urban site as a generic Mediterranean case. The complexity of the problem requires an inter-disciplinary approach involving both computational and experimental methods: Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD) simulations, wind tunnel laboratory experiments and field measurements of surface heat flux.

Principal InvestigatorSandberg, Mats University of Gävle, Faculty of Engineering and Sustainable Development, Department of Building, Energy and Environmental Engineering, Energy system (Closed down 2018-12-31)

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University of Gävle

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Forskningsrådet Formas

Period

2008-12-15 － 2010-12-15

National Category

Energy Systems

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DiVA, id: project:291Project, id: 2008-327_Formas

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