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Paper number 100!

As weather models zoom in on our cities, the way we represent buildings and the air flowing around them needs to adapt.

🌬️ A great week at WES 2026 – the 15th UK Conference on Wind Engineering, hosted by the University of Surrey!

This week, our Urban Fluid Mechanics group at Imperial College London will be heading to the 15th UK Wind Engineering Society Conference (WES 2026) at the University of Surrey.

We are used to thinking about the aerodynamic drag of a building in terms of its size, shape and orientation.

Very honoured to have been part of the staff team for this wonderful International Leadership Programme.

Last week I was in Helsinki, tailcoat and all, to serve as the opponent in the PhD defence of Jani Strömberg.

Yesterday was graduation day at Imperial College London, and it was fantastic to see former group members Sam Owens, Chris Wilson and Rodrigo Ribeiro, PhD graduate with their PhDs.

Maarten's LinkedIn post on the new lab website — a decade of planning brought to life in a couple of days using agentic software engineering, pulling content directly from ORCID, arXiv, GitHub, and Zenodo.

We are pleased to share our latest work on the urban surface-energy balance, led by former PhD student (soon to be Dr) Chris Wilson with collaborators Athanasios Paschalis (University of Cyprus), Sylvia Bohnenstengel (Met Office) and Jon Shonk (Met Office).

Cities don’t heat up evenly.

PhD opportunity for uk students

Maarten's LinkedIn post on a new open-access Atmospheric Environment paper about trees and pollutant dispersion in street canyons.

A great joint Urban Fluid Mechanics / Wind Engineering Society meeting last Tuesday at Imperial Civil and Environmental Engineering.

The next Urban Fluid Mechanics Special Interest group meeting will be held together with the Wind Engineering Society on December 16 at Imperial.

Maarten's LinkedIn post on Lianzheng Cui's Journal of Fluid Mechanics paper on inclined gravity currents.

Maarten's LinkedIn post on Dipanjan Majumdar's Journal of Wind Engineering and Industrial Aerodynamics paper on tree-canopy drag.

Maarten's LinkedIn post linking to the Boundary-Layer Meteorology paper on multi-scale flow over heterogeneous urban environments.