2024 Faculty Courses School of Environment and Society Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering Graduate major in Urban Design and Built Environment
Numerical Simulation of Environments
- Academic unit or major
- Graduate major in Urban Design and Built Environment
- Instructor(s)
- Takashi Asawa / Takashi Nakamura / Shinjiro Kanae / Masashi Matsuoka / Tsubasa Okaze / Atsushi Inagaki / Haruki Oshio
- Class Format
- Lecture (Livestream)
- Media-enhanced courses
- -
- Day of week/Period
(Classrooms) - 5-6 Mon
- Class
- -
- Course Code
- UDE.E506
- Number of credits
- 100
- Course offered
- 2024
- Offered quarter
- 3Q
- Syllabus updated
- Mar 14, 2025
- Language
- English
Syllabus
Course overview and goals
For understanding and predicting about an environmental system as a complex systems including many factors quantitatively, numerical simulation is absolutely necessary tool. In this course,
(1) Atmospheric environments (urban/regional scale meteorology)
(2) Water environments (coastal and groundwater environments)
(3) Global environments (global scale ocean, atmosphere and watershed system)
The aims of this course are (1) to understand latest achievements in each field of environmental modeling and (2) to learn how to apply the numerical simulations of environments to real research fields. Through this course students are expected to acquire how to apply modeling and numerical simulation technique to their own research.
Course description and aims
By the end of this course, students will be able to understand latest achievements in each field of environmental modeling, and will be able to learn how to apply the numerical simulations of environments to real research fields.
Keywords
Numerical simulation, Atmospheric environments, Water environments, Global environments
Competencies
- Specialist skills
- Intercultural skills
- Communication skills
- Critical thinking skills
- Practical and/or problem-solving skills
Class flow
Lectures are omnibus style about each topic by invited experts. In the later part, literature searching about a selected topic from above lectures is conducted, and students are required to summarize in a report.
Course schedule/Objectives
| Course schedule | Objectives | |
|---|---|---|
| Class 1 | Numerical simulation of urban thermal environment | Understand numerical simulation of urban thermal environment and its application |
| Class 2 | Meso/micro scale weather forecast | Understand meso/micro scale weather forecast and its application |
| Class 3 | Numerical simulation of urban atmospheric environment and environmental disaster | Understand numerical simulation of urban atmospheric environment and environmental disaster, and its application |
| Class 4 | Application of geographic information system and remote sensing | Understand application of geographic information system and remote sensing technique to numerical simulations of environments |
| Class 5 | Numerical simulation of urban greening | Understand numerical simulation of urban greening and its application |
| Class 6 | Modeling coral reef ecosystem | Understand modeling coral reef ecosystem and its application |
| Class 7 | Numerical simulation of water resource management and water disaster | Understand numerical simulation of global-scale water resource management and water disaster, and its application |
Study advice (preparation and review)
To enhance effective learning, students are encouraged to spend approximately 100 minutes preparing for class and another 100 minutes reviewing class content afterwards (including assignments) for each class.
They should do so by referring to textbooks and other course material.
Textbook(s)
Nothing
Reference books, course materials, etc.
Handout will be distributed at beginning of class.
Evaluation methods and criteria
Learning achievement is evaluated by reports (short report for every class, final report).
Related courses
- GEG.E402 ： Urban Environment
- GEG.E411 ： Atmospheric Environment in Megacities
- GEG.E401 ： Global Environmental System and Ecosystem Dynamics
- GEG.E511 ： Socio-ecological systems in changing global and local environments
- CVE.B401 ： Water Resource Systems
Prerequisites
Nothing