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Alan Robins
Researcher at University of Surrey
Publications - 115
Citations - 3672
Alan Robins is an academic researcher from University of Surrey. The author has contributed to research in topics: Wind tunnel & Atmospheric dispersion modeling. The author has an hindex of 37, co-authored 111 publications receiving 3258 citations.
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Comparison of plume rise models against water tank experimental data for neutral and stable crossflows
TL;DR: In this paper, the trajectories of sixty plumes, simulated at small scale in a towing water tank, have been analyzed in order to test the performance of widely used dispersion codes and to find statistically the best entrainment coefficients for the different models.
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Natural ventilation in cities: the implications of fluid mechanics
Jiyun Song,Shiwei Fan,William E. Lin,Laetitia Mottet,Huw Woodward,M.S. Davies Wykes,Rossella Arcucci,D. Xiao,J.-E. Debay,Helen ApSimon,Elsa Aristodemou,David Birch,Matteo Carpentieri,Fangxin Fang,Michael Herzog,Gary R. Hunt,Roderic L. Jones,Christopher C. Pain,Dimitrios Pavlidis,Alan Robins,C. A. Short,Paul Linden +21 more
TL;DR: In this paper, the impact of urban airflow on the natural ventilation of a building was investigated under the Managing Air for Green Inner Cities (MAGIC) project using measurements and modelling to investigate the connections between external and internal conditions.
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A comparison of mesh-adaptive LES with wind tunnel data for flow past buildings: Mean flows and velocity fluctuations
Elsa Aristodemou,Elsa Aristodemou,Tom Bentham,Christopher C. Pain,Roy N. Colvile,Alan Robins,Helen ApSimon +6 more
TL;DR: In this paper, a series of mesh-adaptive large eddy simulations (LES) was carried out for the study of air flows within two intersecting street canyons with varying building configurations.
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Wake Characteristics of Tall Buildings in a Realistic Urban Canopy
Denise Hertwig,Hannah Gough,Sue Grimmond,Janet F. Barlow,Christoph W. Kent,William E. Lin,Alan Robins,Paul Hayden +7 more
TL;DR: In this paper, the aerodynamic effects of tall buildings on the microscale to local scales with a focus on the interaction between the wake structure, canopy and roughness sublayer flow of the surroundings in a realistic urban setting in central London.
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Processes controlling atmospheric dispersion through city centres
TL;DR: In this article, the authors developed a process-based model for the dispersion of a passive scalar in the turbulent flow around the buildings of a city centre, which is based on dividing the airspace of the streets and intersections into boxes, within which the turbulence renders the air well mixed.