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Special Issue on Urban Wind-Thermal Environment Nexus under Normal and Extreme Weather Conditions: Flow Characteristics, UAV Intervention and Climate-Adaptive Resilience

Aims and Scope

Accelerated global climate change has sharply increased the frequency and severity of extreme weather events, including prolonged heatwaves, strong wind disasters, and compound thermo-flow hazards, which have exerted unprecedented pressures on urban building environmental safety. Conventional urban microclimate studies have established mature theoretical frameworks, yet the evolution mechanisms of indoor and outdoor building environments under extreme thermo-flow conditions, along with systematic response strategies, still lack in-depth exploration.


This special issue aims to compile frontier advances in urban microclimate and built environment research, covering both routine urban microclimate characteristics and extreme thermo-flow scenarios. It focuses on revealing the evolution patterns of building indoor and outdoor wind-thermal environments under normal and extreme conditions, and integrates multi-field coupling simulation, UAV-enabled environmental monitoring and regulation, and climate-adaptive design to explore effective approaches for improving urban environmental resilience.


Original research articles, critical reviews, and engineering case studies are all welcomed. This special issue is expected to provide theoretical support and technical references for sustainable urban construction and climate change adaptation.

Lead Guest Editor

Huaiyu Zhong
Anhui University of Technology, China
Research Areas: Urban and architectural microclimate, Urban wind environment and low-altitude transportation, Diffusion of human contaminants in semiconductor cleanrooms

Guest Editors

Xinjie Huang
Anhui University of Technology, China
Research Areas: Thermal runaway and thermal safety management of power batteries, Combustion characteristics and fire spread mechanisms of energy and power cables, Combustion characteristics and heat transfer mechanisms of liquid fuels, Study on fire spread characteristics of thermal insulation materials

Yanan Liu
Chongqing Jiaotong University, China
Research Areas: BIPV, Building ventilation, Urban wind environment and thermal environment, Urban pollutants, Building energy conservation, Green buildings and building performance optimization

Songheng Wu
Xi’an University of Architecture and Technology, China
Research Areas: Urban ventilation in complex terrain, Focusing on multi-scale flow field numerical modeling, Scaled flume experimental techniques, Wind and thermal environment diagnosis and planning control, Polar architectural wind environment analysis

Carlos Jimenez-Bescos
University of Greenwich, UK
Research Areas: Passivhaus, Energy monitoring, IAQ, Sustainable construction, Building simulation

 

Special Issue Information

The contributions from researchers describing their original, unpublished, research contribution on the following theme (but not limited to):

  • Routine and extreme urban microclimate characteristics 
  • Indoor-outdoor building wind-thermal environment evolution 
  • Multi-field coupling simulation of extreme thermo-flow environments 
  • UAV-based environmental monitoring and active regulation 
  • Climate-adaptive urban and architectural design strategies 
  • Urban built environment resilience to compound thermo-flow hazards
  • Building environmental safety assessment under extreme weather 
  • Sustainable urban climate adaptation and mitigation technologies

 

Manuscript Submission Information

Submission deadline: 30th April 2027

Submissions that pass pre-check will be reviewed by at least two reviewers of the specific field.

 

If you have any queries regarding this special issue or other matters, please feel free to contact the editorial office: office@ssceditorial.com