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[Seminar] CIRCLE Distinguished Lecture Series:Urban physics and the grand societal challenges: from city scale to building scale by Prof. Bert Blocken
Date: 02/11/2022 Addr:ZOOM

  

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ABSTRACT: Urban physics is the science and engineering of physical processes in urban areas. It basically refers to the transfer of heat and mass in the outdoor and indoor urban environment, and its interaction with humans, fauna, flora and materials. Urban physics is a rapidly increasing focus area as it is key to understanding and addressing the grand societal challenges climate change, energy, health, security, transport and aging. This presentation provides three examples of recent urban physics research from the city scale to the building scale. It focuses on COVID-19 related aerosol ventilation in buildings ranging from classrooms to soccer stadiums, on heat waves in cities, overheating in buildings and adaptation against heat waves at city and building scale, and on air pollution by particulate matter, both outdoor and indoor.  The presentation aims to demonstrate the importance of a multiscale approach in urban physics research, linking outdoor and indoor physical processes. 

 

BIO: Bert Blocken holds a PhD in Civil Engineering / Building Physics from KU Leuven in Belgium. He is Full Professor in the Department of the Built Environment at Eindhoven University of Technology (TU/e) in the Netherlands and part-time Full Professor in the Department of Civil Engineering at KU Leuven in Belgium. He has led the design and construction of the Eindhoven Atmospheric Boundary Layer Wind Tunnel and currently acts as its Scientific Director. His main areas of expertise are urban physics, city and building aerodynamics and sports aerodynamics. He has published 218 papers in international peer-reviewed journals. He is editor of the peer-reviewed journal Building and Environment and associate editor of the journal Sports Engineering. He has graduated 25 PhD students. He is supervising a team of 5 senior researchers and 21 PhD students.

 

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