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Urban Greenhouse and Sustainable Design

A special issue of Sustainability (ISSN 2071-1050). This special issue belongs to the section "Sustainable Urban and Rural Development".

Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (26 March 2023) | Viewed by 6711

Special Issue Editor

Assoc. Prof. Dr. Lazaros Mavromatidis

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INSA Strasbourg, School of Architecture, ICube UMR 7357
Interests: sustainability; urbanism; urban agriculture; urban design/planning; aesthetics; architectural morphogenesis; architectural sustainable design; energy; heat transfer; sustainable development; constructal and applied thermodynamics; building physics, innovative building envelopes

Special Issue Information

Dear Colleagues,

This Special Issue aims to comprise high-level interdisciplinary research papers regarding the innovative sustainable design of urban greenhouses. There is widespread acceptance that urbanization occurs rapidly, and because of unbalanced development and aberrant and impoverished urban planning, our contemporary cities are facing major challenges. Recently, urban agriculture has been revealed to be an interesting strategy to face contemporary cities’ food problem. Furthermore, urban agriculture seems to also be an efficient strategy to regenerate the economy of societies in crisis (financial and social, e.g., the city of Detroit). Thence, this Special Issue should focus upon the major challenge that is not explicitly investigated yet: how to create innovative sustainable designs to contain urban agricultural programs integrated into urban tissues in a way that promotes sustainability and positively affects–regulates urban microclimates.

The journal Sustainability is hosting a Special Issue on “Urban Greenhouse and Sustainable Design”. Studies are welcome that formulate innovative theoretical and methodological approaches to design, study (experimentally and/or numerically), and optimize the sustainable impact of multiscale urban greenhouses. How multiscale design decisions (form, envelope, components) should be made concerning urban green spaces and urban microclimates is the core subject of this Special Issue.

Contributions on the following themes are of particular interest, though other relevant topics will also be considered:

  • Evidence on how programmatic decisions should affect the form of urban greenhouses;
  • Components for efficient urban greenhouse design;
  • Novel methods for assessment and long-term evaluation of urban greenhouses’ energy impact;
  • Nearly zero energy urban greenhouses;
  • Intersectoral scientific approaches to urban greenhouse design and management;
  • Demonstrated benefits of urban greenhouses in the attenuation of climate change and urban heat;
  • Development of decision-making strategies or software for optimal urban greenhouse design, fabrication, and maintenance;
  • Innovative building envelopes for energy-efficient urban greenhouse constructions;
  • Innovative architectural morphogenesis concepts for urban greenhouse design;
  • Climatic studies that illustrate the impact of urban greenhouses in the urban microclimate;
  • In situ energy production throughout urban greenhouse programs;
  • The iconic dimension of urban greenhouse forms and their impact on the landscape/cityscape;
  • The aesthetics of urban agriculture through urban greenhouse architectural formalism;
  • Educational activities for urban greenhouse optimal conception.

Assoc. Prof. Dr. Lazaros Mavromatidis
Guest Editor

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Submitted manuscripts should not have been published previously, nor be under consideration for publication elsewhere (except conference proceedings papers). All manuscripts are thoroughly refereed through a single-blind peer-review process. A guide for authors and other relevant information for submission of manuscripts is available on the Instructions for Authors page. Sustainability is an international peer-reviewed open access semimonthly journal published by MDPI.

Please visit the Instructions for Authors page before submitting a manuscript. The Article Processing Charge (APC) for publication in this open access journal is 2400 CHF (Swiss Francs). Submitted papers should be well formatted and use good English. Authors may use MDPI's English editing service prior to publication or during author revisions.

Keywords

  • greenspaces
  • urban agriculture
  • energy production
  • energy consumption
  • microclimate
  • constructal thermodynamics
  • aesthetics
  • cityscape
  • climate change

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A Fast Simulation Approach to the Thermal Recovery Characteristics of Deep Borehole Heat Exchanger after Heat Extraction
by Yazhou Zhao, Zhibo Ma and Zhonghe Pang
Sustainability 2020, 12(5), 2021; https://doi.org/10.3390/su12052021 - 6 Mar 2020
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Necessary intermittence after heat extraction for a deep borehole heat exchanger (DBHE) is beneficial for sustainable operation. This paper centers on the fast simulation for thermal recovery characteristics of DBHE under intermittent condition. First of all, in view of the existing temperature gradient [...] Read more.
Necessary intermittence after heat extraction for a deep borehole heat exchanger (DBHE) is beneficial for sustainable operation. This paper centers on the fast simulation for thermal recovery characteristics of DBHE under intermittent condition. First of all, in view of the existing temperature gradient and multi-layer heterogeneity of rock underground that could never be ignored for DBHE, we extend the classical finite line source model based on heat source theory and superposition principle to account for the vertical heat flux distribution varying along depth and heterogeneous thermal conductivities in the multi-layer rock zone. Moreover, a fast simulation approach for heat transfer analysis inside the borehole coupled with the extended finite line source model is put forward to depict the transient thermal response and dynamic thermal recovery of rock outside borehole. To the authors’ knowledge, no such algorithm for deep BHE has yet been suggested in the previous literature. This approach has proven to be reliable and efficient enough for DBHE simulation under the intermittent condition. Simulation results show that at least 65 days of intermittence for the model in study should be spared after the heating season to achieve sustainable heat extraction in the next cyclic operation. Compared to the detailed solution based on full discretization numerical schemes, the relative error for borehole bottom temperature was 0.79%. In addition, comparison of the simulation results for thermal performance during the heating season in a three-year cyclic operation with 205 days intermittence shows that both the outflow temperature and heat extraction rate in the subsequent cycle after intermittence are in good agreement with the full 3D numerical solution in the reference (with a relative error of 6.36% for the outflow temperature and 9.3% for the heat extraction rate). Regarding the calculation speed, around a 13 times acceleration can be achieved. Finally, it is also promising to be applicable for thermal recovery simulation after heat extraction of vertical closed loop borehole heat exchangers at arbitrary length from shallow to deep. Full article
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Research on the Microclimate of Protected Agriculture Structures Using Numerical Simulation Tools: A Technical and Bibliometric Analysis as a Contribution to the Sustainability of Under-Cover Cropping in Tropical and Subtropical Countries
by Gloria Alexandra Ortiz Rocha, Maria Angelica Pichimata and Edwin Villagran
Sustainability 2021, 13(18), 10433; https://doi.org/10.3390/su131810433 - 18 Sep 2021
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The use of protected agriculture structures in tropical and subtropical countries is the main alternative for intensification of agricultural production selected by producers. In general, in these regions, passive and plastic-covered structures predominate, with natural ventilation as the only method of climate control. [...] Read more.
The use of protected agriculture structures in tropical and subtropical countries is the main alternative for intensification of agricultural production selected by producers. In general, in these regions, passive and plastic-covered structures predominate, with natural ventilation as the only method of climate control. This phenomenon has been widely studied in different types of structures using computational fluid dynamics (CFD) simulation. Therefore, this review aimed to collect and analyze the publications generated in this field of knowledge between 2010 and 2020. The search for information included the main academic databases available on the web and the analysis was carried out using bibliometric techniques, from which it was possible to identify details inherent to the scientific production, such as countries of origin, main authors, journals, and citations. Likewise, a detailed breakdown of the relevant technical information of the three phases of numerical simulation, such as preprocessing, processing, and postprocessing, was carried out. A compilation of 118 papers published in 65 journals, written by 256 authors, originating from 24 countries was achieved, where it was evident that Mexico and Colombia were the countries with the highest scientific production in the last decade. These papers analyzed, together, a total of 17 different types of structures where polyethylene-covered greenhouses predominated, with steady state simulations, for daytime climate conditions and without the presence of crops. Within the current and future research trends, the predominance of studies analyzing passive climate control methods, new models of insect-proof mesh-house structures, and, finally, studies focused on the structural analysis of greenhouses was found. Full article
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