Urban Heat Island Modelling 🌇

The beginning of 2021 will see the completion of the development of a tool for simulating surface temperatures in an urban environment using a weak aeraulic coupling approach.

The tool computes comfort indexes adapted to the outdoor environment at each point in the space. It incorporates a combination of fluid mechanics simulations, solar radiation simulations and dynamic wall models.

The results of a case study in the Strasbourg station area are presented below: Solar flows, air speeds and comfort!

The following animation shows the evolution of comfort levels over the first week of the year.

Sit back and relax! 😎