International Workshop on Physical Modelling of Flow and Dispersion Phenomena 2024

8:30 - 9:00 (30min)

Registration

Arrival and registration

9:00 - 9:10 (10min)

Welcome

9:10 - 10:30 (1h20)

Buoyancy and stratification

Marie Poulain-Zarcos

› Bottom roughness effects on mixing properties of a gravity current - Paolo Monti, Department of Civil, Building and Environmental Engineering (DICEA) - University of Rome La Sapienza 09:10-09:30 (20min)

› Dispersion of Passive and Dense Plumes over a Step-Change in Wall Roughness - Deebank Charles, University of Surrey 09:30-09:50 (20min)

› Gravity currents advancing on heated walls: experimental and numerical analysis - Stefano Lanzini, Laboratoire de Mecanique des Fluides et d'Acoustique 09:50-10:10 (20min)

› Investigation of the influence of atmospheric stability on pollutant concentration using field observation data - Tachibana Takumi, Wind Engineering Institute Co., Ltd., 10:10-10:30 (20min)

10:30 - 11:00 (30min)

Coffee break

11:00 - 12:30 (1h30)

Buoyancy and stratification

Paolo Monti

› Passive scalar dispersion in stable boundary layers - Salizzoni Pietro, Laboratoire de Mecanique des Fluides et d'Acoustique 11:00-11:20 (20min)

› Pollutant Dispersion of Ship Emissions under Realistic Operating Conditions: Focus on Methodology - Stefanie Gillmeier, Eindhoven University of Technology 11:20-11:40 (20min)

› Two-dimensional Particle Image Velocimetry measurements in a wind tunnel model of the Jack Rabbit II field tests - Tom Spicer, University of Arkansas 11:40-12:00 (20min)

› Unravelling the Impact of Urban Morphology on Non-Isothermal Flow Dynamics: Insights from High-Resolution Experimental Investigations - Yunpeng Xue, Singapore ETH Centre 12:00-12:20 (20min)

12:30 - 14:00 (1h30)

Lunch

14:00 - 14:30 (30min)

Retrospective/Perspectives of Atmospheric Wind Tunnels

Alan Robins

14:30 - 15:30 (1h)

Indoor air circulation

Sofia Fellini

› Laboratory-scale modeling of air velocity and pollutant concentration fields in an amphitheatre classroom - Agnese Pini, Department of Civil, Building and Environmental Engineering (DICEA) - University of Rome La Sapienza 14:30-14:50 (20min)

› Natural ventilation and stochastic wind fluctuations: preliminar experimental results - Teresa Di Renzo, DIATI, Politecnico di Torino, C.so Duca degli Abruzzi 24, 10129 Torino, Italy, Laboratoire de Mecanique des Fluides et d'Acoustique 14:50-15:10 (20min)

› Wind tunnel study on the effect of wind direction on the indoor airflow pattern for a naturally ventilated pig barn with an outdoor exercise yard - Xuefei Wu, Department of Sensors and Modelling, Leibniz Institute for Agricultural Engineering and Bioeconomy (ATB) 15:10-15:30 (20min)

15:30 - 16:00 (30min)

Coffee break

16:00 - 17:40 (1h40)

Urban greening

Christof Gromke

› Flow and dispersion in a tree-lined perpendicular street canyon - Sofia Fellini, Dipartimento di Ingegneria dell'Ambiente, del Territorio e delle Infrastrutture 16:00-16:20 (20min)

› Turbulent flow field within an urban canyon with vegetation for any wind directions - Annika Vittoria Del Ponte, Politecnico di Torino = Polytechnic of Turin, École Centrale de Lyon 16:20-16:40 (20min)

› Wind tunnel measurements on the interaction between an isolated tree and the atmospheric boundary layer - Livia Grandoni, Ecole Centrale de Lyon, CNRS, Universite Claude Bernard Lyon 1, INSA Lyon, LMFA, UMR5509 16:40-17:00 (20min)

› Experimental investigation of influence of tree-like structures on urban canyon airflow: A comparative study under isothermal and variable thermal conditions - Giorgos Alexandrou, Environmental Fluid Mechanics Laboratory, University of Cyprus 17:00-17:20 (20min)

› Flow past a building with surface greening: comparison of PIV and LDV in two wind tunnels - Vasiliki Pappa, National Technical University Of Athens, School Of Mechanical Engineering - Demetri Bouris, National Technical University Of Athens, School Of Mechanical Engineering 17:20-17:40 (20min)

17:40 - 17:50 (10min)

Poster session

› Dispersion of gas and aerosols within urban canopy - Hana Chaloupecka, Institute of Thermomechanics (Prague, Czech Republic) 17:40-17:43 (03min)

› Turbulent transport characteristics of coherent structures in ideal vegetation morphology based on wind tunnel experiments - GUOLIANG CHEN, Chen Guoliang 17:43-17:46 (03min)

› Exploring the influence of wind patterns on SUHI: a case study on Italian cities - Antonio Esposito, Dipartimento di Scienze e Tecnologie Biologiche e Ambientali 17:46-17:49 (03min)

17:50 - 18:30 (40min)

Posters & expo

Opportunity to go see the posters as well as an exposition in the showroom, next to the Ice-breaker event.

18:30 - 21:00 (2h30)

Ice-breaker