Two-day meeting 17-18th Dec 2018 in Cambridge - indoor-outdoor exchanges
We were delighted to hold our first 2-day event and our first event jointly hosted with the Urban Fluid Mechanics Special Interest Group in Cambridge on 17th-18th December 2018. The event was attended by around 60 delegates and the two days provided a stimulating programme (see below for details):
Monday December 17
10.00 – 10.30 Coffee and welcome
Session 1: Chair Cath Noakes
10.30 – 11.15: Keynote: Vina Kukadia, Building Research Establishment. Providing quality indoor air for health, wellbeing and productivity
11.15 – 11.25 Maarten van Reeuwijk, Imperial College London Overview of the Urban Fluid Mechanics SIG
11.25 –11.35 Cath Noakes Overview of the Low Energy Ventilation Network SIG
11.35—11.55 Xiaoming Cai, University of Birmingham Modelling outdoor photochemical oxidants and ultrafine particles in urban canopy
11.55—12.15 Nicola Carslaw, University of York INDAIRPOLLNET: a new European network for indoor air pollution
12.15 – 13.15 Lunch
Session 2: Chair Tong Xie
13.15 – 14.00 Keynote: Bert Blocken, Eindhoven University of Technology/ KU Leuven LES over RANS in urban fluid dynamics: a foregone conclusion?
14.00– 14.20 Alan Robins, University of Surrey Exploring aspects of pressure, concentration and velocity fluctuations at the MAGIC site
14.20—14.40 Anna Coppel, ARUP Predicting and evaluating air quality in stations
14.40—15.00 Simon Parker, DSTL Indoor exposure to outdoor particles – Modelling integrated exposure in multizone buildings and historical building ingress data
15.00 – 15.30 Coffee/tea
15.30 – 16.30 Panel debate on research challenges in the indoor-outdoor interface. Panellists: Andy Acred (Fosters and Partners), Pietro Salizzoni (Ecole Central Lyon) , Guillerme, Vina Kukudia (BRE), Laetitia Mottet (Imperial College London). Convener: Paul Linden (Cambridge)
16.30 - 17.00 Poster quickfire
17.00 – 18.00 Poster reception
18.00 – 19.30 Dinner in Churchill College
Tuesday December 18
Session 1: Chair Maarten van Reeuwijk
9.00 – 9.45 Guilherme Carrilho da Graca, University of Lisbon Impact of PM2.5 in naturally ventilated buildings.
9.45 –10.05 Paul Linden, University of Cambridge The indoor-outdoor connection in MAGIC
10.05– 10.25 Jon Winchester, Wirth Research Commercial application of hi-res modelling of indoor/outdoor air flow
10.25—10.45 Janet Barlow, University of Reading The indoor-outdoor connection in REFRESH.
10.45 – 11.15 Coffee/tea
Session 2: Chair Cath Noakes
11.15 – 11.45 Tong Xie, University of Southampton Sharing data on urban indoor-outdoor flows
11.45 – 12.45 SIG-specific discussions
· LEVN: Datasets and measurement standards for indoor environments
· UFM: Datasets and proposal updates
12.45 – 13.00 Wrap up
13.00 Lunch