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Frontiers of Architectural Research

ISSN 2095-2635

ISSN 2095-2643(Online)

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Front. Archit. Res.    2023, Vol. 12 Issue (3) : 541-555    https://doi.org/10.1016/j.foar.2022.12.001
RESEARCH ARTICLE
Data generative machine learning model for the assessment of outdoor thermal and wind comfort in a northern urban environment
Nasim Eslamirad1(), Francesco De Luca2, Kimmo Sakari Lylykangas2, Sadok Ben Yahia3
1. FinEst Centre for Smart Cities, Tallinn University of Technology, Tallinn 10319, Estonia
2. Department of Civil Engineering andArchitecture, TallinnUniversity ofTechnology, Tallinn 10319, Estonia
3. Department of Software Science, Tallinn University of Technology, Tallinn 10319, Estonia
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Abstract

Predicting comfort levels in cities is challenging due to the many metric assessment. To overcome these challenges, much research is being done in the computing community to develop methods capable of generating outdoor comfort data. Machine Learning (ML) provides many opportunities to discover patterns in large datasets such as urban data. This paper proposes a data-driven approach to build a predictive and data-generative model to assess outdoor thermal comfort. The model benefits from the results of a study, which analyses Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD) urban simulation to determine the thermal and wind comfort in Tallinn, Estonia. The ML model was built based on classification, and it uses an opaque ML model. The results were evaluated by applying different metrics and show us that the approach allows the implementation of a data-generative ML model to generate reliable data on outdoor comfort that can be used by urban stakeholders, planners, and researchers.

Keywords Urban climate      Outdoor thermal and wind comfort      Predictive model      Data generative model      Machine learning approach     
Corresponding Author(s): Nasim Eslamirad   
Issue Date: 23 May 2023
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Nasim Eslamirad,Francesco De Luca,Kimmo Sakari Lylykangas, et al. Data generative machine learning model for the assessment of outdoor thermal and wind comfort in a northern urban environment[J]. Front. Archit. Res., 2023, 12(3): 541-555.
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https://academic.hep.com.cn/foar/EN/10.1016/j.foar.2022.12.001
https://academic.hep.com.cn/foar/EN/Y2023/V12/I3/541
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