Program

Wednesday, August 23, 2017

Time Event  
11:30 - 12:30 Registration - Welcome of the participants  
12:30 - 14:00 Lunch (Hall A)  
14:00 - 16:05 Flow and Dispersion in Urban Area (Auditorium A) - Bernd Leitl  
14:00 - 14:25 › Wind tunnel measurements of flow and dispersion in regular arrays of buildings - Matteo Carpentieri, University of Surrey  
14:25 - 14:50 › Impacts of hedges on traffic pollutant concentrations in urban street canyons - Christof Gromke, Laboratory of Building and Environmental Aerodynamics, Institute for Hydromechanics IfH, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology KIT  
14:50 - 15:15 › Wind Tunnel Study of Plume Dispersion over Hypothetical Urban Areas - Chun-Ho Liu, Department of Mechanical Engineering, The University of Hong Kong  
15:15 - 15:40 › The turbulent kinetic energy budget in a cube canopy using PIV - Karin Blackman, Laboratoire de recherche en Hydrodynamique, Énergétique et Environnement Atmosphérique  
15:40 - 16:05 › Turbulence statistics of canopy-flows using novel Lagrangian measurements within an environmental wind tunnel - Yardena Bohbot-Raviv, Environmental Wind Tunnel Laboratory, Department of Applied Mathematics, Israel Institute for Biological Research  
16:05 - 16:45 Poster Session + Coffee Break (Hall A)  
16:05 - 16:45 › A simple street canyon vertical mass-exchange model - Laurent Perret, Institut de recherche en sciences et en technologies de la ville, Laboratoire de recherche en Hydrodynamique, Énergétique et Environnement Atmosphérique  
16:05 - 16:45 › An analysis about non-stationary processes in tornado-like vortices - Stefanie Gillmeier, Department of Civil Engineering, University of Birmingham, Birmingham, UK  
16:05 - 16:45 › Development and operation of a pressure scanner 1000channels/1000Hz for Wind engineering expertise - Christian Barré, climatologie aéraudynamique pollution epuration  
16:05 - 16:45 › Effects of adjacent constructions on the mean pressure distribution on a house immersed in a peri-urban boundary-layer, a wind tunnel study - Boris Conan, Institut de recherche en sciences et en technologies de la ville, Laboratoire de recherche en Hydrodynamique, Énergétique et Environnement Atmosphérique  
16:05 - 16:45 › Experimental and numerical approach for atmospheric flow modelling - Quentin Gallas, Onera - The French Aerospace Lab  
16:05 - 16:45 › Issues with wind-tunnel measurements of turbulent pollution fluxes within a complex urban area - Zuzana Kluková, Institute of Thermomechanics, Czech Academy of Sciences, Department of Atmospheric Physics, Faculty of Mathematics and Physics, Charles University  
16:05 - 16:45 › Porous CFD modelling of lattice transmission towers validated by PIV and aerodynamic force measurements - Jeroen van Beeck, VKI, von Karman Institute for Fluid Dynamics  
16:45 - 17:10 Dispersion (Auditorium A) - Boris Conan  
16:45 - 17:10 › Wind tunnel measurements on reduction of near surface concentrations through naturally barrier on emissions from naturally ventilated barn. - Marcel König, Leibniz Institute for Agricultural Engineering and Bioeconomy  
17:10 - 18:25 Thermal Effects (Auditorium A) - Alan Robins  
17:10 - 17:35 › An experimental investigation of thermal circulation in urban street canyons - Marina Neophytou, Environmental Fluid Mechanics Laboratory, University of Cyprus  
17:35 - 18:00 › Study of the effect of atmospheric stratification on flow and dispersion in urban environment - Davide Marucci, University of Surrey  
18:00 - 18:25 › Wind-tunnel simulation of stably stratified deep atmospheric boundary layers with an imposed inversion - Paul Hayden, EnFlo Laboratory, University of Surrey  
18:25 - 18:40 A few words about ECN/LHEEA (Auditorium A)  
19:00 - 21:30 Cocktail (Hall N - Wind Tunnel Hall)
 

Thursday, August 24, 2017

Time Event  
09:00 - 10:40 ABL Modeling (Auditorium A) - Frank Harms  
09:00 - 09:25 › Scalling issues of a modelled boundary layer - Klara Jurcakova, Institute of Thermomechanics (Prague, Czech Republic)  
09:25 - 09:50 › Revision of the VDI guideline for physical modelling of flow and dispersion phenomena in the atmospheric boundary layer - Bernd Leitl, University of Hamburg, Meteorological Institute, Environmental Wind Tunnel Lab  
09:50 - 10:15 › ´... modeling just a simple boundary layer flow ... - Kerstin Schäfer, University of Hamburg - Meteorological Institute, EWTL, Bundesstrasse 55, D-20146 Hamburg  
10:15 - 10:40 › Impact of Proximity to Spires on Turbulent Characteristics and Structures - Radka Kellnerova, Institute of Thermomechanics (Prague, Czech Republic)  
10:40 - 11:20 Coffee break + Poster Session (Hall A)
 
11:20 - 12:35 Accidental Releases (Auditorium A) - Sandrine Aubrun  
11:20 - 11:45 › Modelling the dispersion of steady and unsteady pollutant releases in a mixed industrial and residential area - Ana Ibarra Velazquez, Institut de Combustion Aérothermique Réactivité et Environnement, Laboratoire PRISME  
11:45 - 12:10 › Modelling of accidental releases of biogas from fermentation plants - Meike Hellweg, Meteorologisches Institut der Universität Hamburg  
12:10 - 12:35 › Scaled model of the pollutant dispersion driven by a condensed-phase explosion in an urban environment - Charline Fouchier, von Karman Institute for Fluid Dynamics, Université Libre de Bruxelles - ULB (BELGIUM)  
12:35 - 14:00 Lunch (Hall A)  
14:00 - 15:40 OoPs Session (Obnoxious Operational ProblemS) (Auditorium A) - Laurent Perret  
14:00 - 14:25 › ... just a simple dense gas release experiment ... - Frank Harms, University of Hamburg, Meteorological Institute, Environmental Wind Tunnel Lab  
14:25 - 14:50 › How representative are urban wind measurements? - Benyamin Schliffke, Meteorologisches Institut der Universität Hamburg  
14:50 - 15:15 › Between the idea and the reality - Alan Robins, University of Surrey  
15:15 - 15:40 › Evaluation of hot-wire probe performance for turbulence measurement: a priori error analysis based on stereoscopic PIV - Laurent PERRET, Laboratoire de recherche en Hydrodynamique, Énergétique et Environnement Atmosphérique, Institut de recherche en sciences et en technologies de la ville  
15:40 - 16:20 Coffee break + Poster session (Hall A)
 
16:20 - 17:35 Health (Auditorium A) - Jonas Allegrini  
16:20 - 16:45 › Transmission of human respiratory disease by indoor bioaerosols - William Lin, University of Surrey  
16:45 - 17:10 › The far-field of coughs produced by healthy and influenza-infected humans - Eric Savory, Western University  
17:10 - 17:35 › Investigating the Reactivity of Chlorine with Environmental Materials in Relevant, Controlled Conditions - Tom Spicer, University of Arkansas - Audrey Feuvrier, University of Arkansas  
17:35 - 18:35 Discussion (Auditorium A)  
20:00 - 22:00 Conference Dinner at O'Deck (Nantes city center)
 

Friday, August 25, 2017

Time Event  
09:00 - 10:15 Flow and Dispersion in Urban Area (Auditorium A) - Eric Savory  
09:00 - 09:25 › Pollutant dispersion at an orthogonal four-way road intersection - William Lin, University of Surrey - Alan Robins, University of Surrey  
09:25 - 09:50 › MODITIC wind tunnel experiments - Alan Robins, University of Surrey  
09:50 - 10:15 › PIV measurements for pedestrian wind comfort assessment - Sylvain Aguinaga, Centre Scientifique et Technique du Bâtiment [Nantes]  
10:15 - 10:55 Coffee break + Poster session (Hall A)
 
10:55 - 12:35 Complex Flows (Auditorium A) - Klara Jurcakova  
10:55 - 11:20 › Combined aerodynamic force and flow field measurements for a tall transmission tower - Jonas Allegrini, Swiss Federal Laboratories for Materials Science and Technology, Eidgenössische Technische Hochschule Zürich  
11:20 - 11:45 › Design of inflatable walls for wind tunnels - Olivier Flamand, CSTB  
11:45 - 12:10 › Investigation of terrain effects on wind dynamics within the lower atmosphere - Sylvio Freitas, University of Hamburg - Meteorological Institute, EWTL  
12:10 - 12:35 › Wind tunnel measurement of flow and pollution dispersion around consecutive two ridged hills - Bao-Shi Shiau, Institute of Physics, Academia Sinica  
12:35 - 14:00 Lunch (Hall A)  
14:00 - 14:00 End of conference - Free afternoon in Nantes  
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