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Urban Heat Island and Fractal Sunshade

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Fractal Flow Design: How to Design Bespoke Turbulence and Why

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An urban heat island is a built up area that is warmer than its surrounding rural area. The urban heat island has been attributed to many aspects of human activities. In this chapter, the impact of the fractal structure of trees, which has not been studied concerning the urban heat island, is discussed.

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  1. Graduate School of Human and Environmental Studies, Kyoto University, Kyoto, Japan

    Satoshi Sakai

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  1. Dept. of Mech. Science and Engineering, Nagoya University, Nagoya, Japan

    Yasuhiko Sakai

  2. Department of Aeronautics, Imperial College London, London, United Kingdom

    Christos Vassilicos

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Sakai, S. (2016). Urban Heat Island and Fractal Sunshade. In: Sakai, Y., Vassilicos, C. (eds) Fractal Flow Design: How to Design Bespoke Turbulence and Why. CISM International Centre for Mechanical Sciences, vol 568. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-33310-6_1

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