Sam Owens

PhD student · 2019-2024

PhD on simulating the diurnal cycle of urban microclimates with LES. Lead author of the conservative immersed-boundary method that underpins uDALES v2.0.

Current position: Specialist Modelling Group @ Foster + Partners

PhD title: Here comes the sun: simulating the diurnal cycle of urban microclimates using LES

Primary supervisor: Maarten van Reeuwijk

Areas:

Urban fluid mechanics

Tags:

Air Quality Dispersion IBM LES Microclimate SEB uDALES Urban Urban form

Publications with group

Large-eddy simulation of a diurnal cycle in a coastal urban environment
Sam Owens, Owen Beckett, Andy Acred, Maarten van Reeuwijk · Building and Environment · 2025

LES uDALES SEB Microclimate Urban Urban form
uDALES: a high-fidelity multi-physics large-eddy simulation framework for urban microclimate modelling
Dipanjan Majumdar, Sam O. Owens, Chris E. Wilson, Paul Bartholomew, Maarten van Reeuwijk · · 2025

Conference
uDALES LES Microclimate Urban SEB
A conservative immersed boundary method for the multi-physics urban large-eddy simulation model uDALES v2.0
Sam O. Owens, Dipanjan Majumdar, Chris E. Wilson, Paul Bartholomew, Maarten van Reeuwijk · Geoscientific Model Development · 2024

uDALES LES IBM Urban SEB Urban form
uDALES 1.0: a large-eddy simulation model for urban environments
Ivo Suter, Tom Grylls, Birgit S. Sützl, Sam O. Owens, Chris E. Wilson, Maarten van Reeuwijk · Geoscientific Model Development · 2022

uDALES LES Urban Microclimate SEB Dispersion Air Quality
uDALES: large-eddy-simulation software for urban flow, dispersion, and microclimate modelling
Tom Grylls, Ivo Suter, Birgit Sützl, Sam Owens, David Meyer, Maarten van Reeuwijk · Journal of Open Source Software · 2021

uDALES LES Urban Dispersion Microclimate Urban form