PhD Student in high-detail wind effects in urban areas - DTU Wind

Official occupation: ph.d., naturvidenskab og teknik. Employment conditions: Almindelige vilkår. Employer CVR: 30060946.

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Public Sector, Education & Impact (employer-sector evidence). This PhD project tackles a fundamental research question in urban meteorology:

How can we accurately describe and quantify the complex wind fields near geometrically complicated buildings? The understanding of these complex wind fields is important for how future cities and buildings are designed, as well as for how smaller-scale wind turbines in or near urban areas are placed.

In this project, you will work with high-detail geometric building representation, state-of-the-art wind simulation tools and new types of measurement data that together may enable better assessments of urban area wind-comfort, wind-risk, wind resource assessment and air pollution transport.

The project will investigate how detailed urban geometries can be transformed into robust simulation-ready models and how different levels of geometric detail influence the accuracy of urban wind predictions. A particular focus will be on identifying which building and urban-environment characteristics must be retained, simplified or parameterized to obtain computationally efficient and accurate simulations1 …