ReCoNet: recycling community network

ReCoNet is a housing complex which is designed to reconnect in three scales: Marco, Meso and Micro. The composition of ReCoNet is designed around the concept of a recycling community. Taking social, ecological and economical sustainability as its key point, ReCoNet aims to create a well-balanced and versatile contemporary solution that maximises...

A Framework for Growth: Urban Architecture for Nature and Well-Being

Building as a landscape: a way to connect people with nature

With the emerging climate change and nature degradation, solutions to the environmental challenges have to be implemented in various industries. The experiment method was undertaken to study symbiotic human and nature connection possibilities through the water and nutrient cycle. The purpose was to elevate the role of the building in enhancing...

Turbulence modulation in thermally expanding and contracting flows

We present direct numerical simulations of developing turbulent channel flows subjected to thermal expansion or contraction downstream of a heated or cooled wall. Using different constitutive relations for viscosity we analyse the response of variable property flows to streamwise acceleration/deceleration by separating the effect of...

Turbulence radiation interaction in channel flow with various optical depths

The present work consists of an investigation of the turbulence radiation interaction (TRI) in a radiative turbulent channel flow of grey gas bounded by isothermal hot and cold walls. The optical thickness of the channel is varied from 0.1 to 10 to observe different regimes of TRI. A high-resolution finite volume method for radiative heat...

Effect of Local DBD Plasma Actuation on Transition in a Laminar Separation Bubble

This work examines the effect of local active flow control on stability and transition in a laminar separation bubble. Experiments are performed in a wind tunnel facility on a NACA 0012 airfoil at a chord Reynolds number of 130 000 and an angle of attack of 2 degrees. Controlled disturbances are introduced upstream of a laminar separation...

On the scaling of shear-driven entertainment: A DNS study

Counter-hairpin vortices in the turbulent wake of a sharp trailing edge

Dynamics of shallow lateral shear layers: Experimental study in a river with a sandy bed

Shallow lateral shear layers forming between flows with different velocities, though essential for mixing processes in natural streams, have been examined only in laboratory settings using smooth, fixed?bed channels. This paper reports the results of an experimental study of a shear layer in a straight reach of a natural river where the layer,...