Abstract :
A method is proposed to assess the natural ventilation potential (NVP) of the Basel Region, Switzerland, by taking into account the most comprehensive set of factors involved in natural ventilation. These factors are either driving forces, such as wind pressure and stack effect, or constraints, like noise pollution and atmospheric pollution. The process considers these factors in an ordinal qualitative scale and gives its result in this same scale. Climatic data are extracted from a mesoscale atmospheric simulation model referred to as Finite Volume Model (FVM), accounting for the effect of the urban fabric and taking as boundary conditions data coming from a model of the Swiss national weather service (MeteoSwiss). FVM provides an urban turbulence module which specifically simulates the effects of urban areas on the meteorology.
