Beatrice Pulvirenti

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors examined published literature on neighbourhood air quality modifications by green interventions and provided a better understanding of the interactions between vegetation and surrounding built-up environments and ascertain means of reducing local air pollution exposure using green infrastructure.

TL;DR: In this article, the effect of street canyons of different aspect ratios and various obstacle array configurations consisting of cubical buildings is investigated with the standard k- e turbulence model and the advection-diffusion (AD) method for the CFD simulations.

TL;DR: In this article, numerical simulations of single elongated bubbles in flow boiling conditions within circular microchannels were performed, where thin-film evaporation was proved to be the dominant heat transfer mechanism in the liquid film region between the wall and the elongated bubble.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors used the k − e turbulence model and the advection-diffusion (AD) method for the CFD simulations of a simple traffic source in street canyons.

TL;DR: In this article, a multiphase CFD simulation was used to investigate the flow boiling of multiple sequential elongated bubbles in a horizontal microchannel, and it was shown that leading and sequential bubbles interact thermally and hydrodynamically due to the evaporation process, thus possessing different growth rates, velocities and thicknesses of the thin liquid films trapped between the bubbles interfaces and the channel wall.