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Akashi Mochida

Akashi Mochida

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Engineering and Technology

D-Index
47
Citations
11656
World Ranking
4750
National Ranking
75

Overview

Akashi Mochida is affiliated with Tohoku University in Japan and specializes in Environmental Science. Their research focuses primarily on the fields of Environmental Engineering, Global and Planetary Change, Building and Construction, Atmospheric Science, and Plant Science.

The main topics explored in their work include:

  • Urban Heat Island Mitigation
  • Wind and Air Flow Studies
  • Building Energy and Comfort Optimization
  • Plant Water Relations and Carbon Dynamics
  • Urban Green Space and Health
  • Aerodynamics and Fluid Dynamics Research
  • Meteorological Phenomena and Simulations

Mochida has published extensively across several academic venues, with frequent contributions to:

  • Journal of Environmental Engineering (Transactions of AIJ)
  • Sustainable Cities and Society
  • Urban Climate
  • Building Simulation
  • Building and Environment

Recent notable papers authored or co-authored by Mochida include:

  • Numerical study on influence of surface vegetation on aerodynamics of high-rise buildings (2024, Sustainable Cities and Society)
  • Effective Factors for Reducing Land Surface Temperature in Each Local Climate Zone Built Type in Tokyo and Shanghai (2023, Remote Sensing)
  • A backpropagation neural network improved by a genetic algorithm for predicting the mean radiant temperature around buildings within the long-term period of the near future (2021, Building Simulation)
  • Evaluation of urban heat islands using local climate zones and the influence of sea-land breeze (2020, Sustainable Cities and Society)
  • Mapping local climate zones for a Japanese large city by an extended workflow of WUDAPT Level 0 method (2020, Urban Climate)

Frequent collaborators in Mochida's research include:

  • Yasuyuki Ishida
  • Hironori Watanabe
  • Hideyuki Tanaka
  • Jun TESHIROGI
  • Qingshan Yang

Best Publications

  • AIJ guidelines for practical applications of CFD to pedestrian wind environment around buildings

    Yoshihide Tominaga;Akashi Mochida;Ryuichiro Yoshie;Hiroto Kataoka

  • Applying support vector machine to predict hourly cooling load in the building

    Qiong Li;Qiong Li;Qinglin Meng;Jiejin Cai;Hiroshi Yoshino

  • Cooperative project for CFD prediction of pedestrian wind environment in the Architectural Institute of Japan

    R. Yoshie;Akashi Mochida;Y. Tominaga;H. Kataoka

  • Wind tunnel tests on the relationship between building density and pedestrian-level wind velocity: Development of guidelines for realizing acceptable wind environment in residential neighborhoods

    Tetsu Kubota;Masao Miura;Yoshihide Tominaga;Akashi Mochida

  • Predicting hourly cooling load in the building: A comparison of support vector machine and different artificial neural networks

    Qiong Li;Qiong Li;Qinglin Meng;Jiejin Cai;Hiroshi Yoshino

  • Comparison of various revised k–ε models and LES applied to flow around a high-rise building model with 1:1:2 shape placed within the surface boundary layer

    Yoshihide Tominaga;Akashi Mochida;Shuzo Murakami;Satoshi Sawaki

  • Prediction of wind environment and thermal comfort at pedestrian level in urban area

    Akashi Mochida;Isaac Y.F. Lun

  • Study on the outdoor thermal environment and thermal comfort around campus clusters in subtropical urban areas

    Tianyu Xi;Qiong Li;Akashi Mochida;Qinglin Meng

  • Comparison of various k-ε models and DSM applied to flow around a high-rise building - Report on AIJ cooperative project for CFD prediction of wind environment

    A. Mochida;Y. Tominaga;S. Murakami;R. Yoshie

  • On turbulent vortex shedding flow past 2D square cylinder predicted by CFD

    Shingo Murakami;A Mochida

  • 3-D numerical simulation of airflow around a cubic model by means of the k-ϵ model

    Shuzo Murakami;Akashi Mochida

  • Examining the κ-ϵ model by means of a wind tunnel test and large-eddy simulation of the turbulence structure around a cube

    Shuzo Murakami;Akashi Mochida;Yoshihiko Hayashi

  • Development of a new k-ε model for flow and pressure fields around bluff body

    M. Tsuchiya;S. Murakami;A. Mochida;K. Kondo

  • Examining tree canopy models for CFD prediction of wind environment at pedestrian level

    Akashi Mochida;Yuichi Tabata;Tatsuaki Iwata;Hiroshi Yoshino

  • CFD analysis of wind climate from human scale to urban scale

    Shuzo Murakami;Ryozo Ooka;Akashi Mochida;Shinji Yoshida

  • CFD modeling of snowdrift around a building: An overview of models and evaluation of a new approach

    Yoshihide Tominaga;Tsubasa Okaze;Akashi Mochida

  • Three-dimensional numerical simulation of air flow around a cubic model by means of large eddy simulation

    Shuzo Murakami;Akashi Mochida;Kazuki Hibi

  • Velocity-pressure field of cross ventilation with open windows analyzed by wind tunnel and numerical simulation

    Shinsuke Kato;Shuzo Murakami;Akashi Mochida;Shin ichi Akabayashi

  • Indoor thermal environment and energy saving for urban residential buildings in China

    Hiroshi Yoshino;Yasuko Yoshino;Qingyuan Zhang;Akashi Mochida

  • Generation of velocity fluctuations for inflow boundary condition of LES

    K. Kondo;S. Murakami;A. Mochida

Frequent Co-Authors

Yoshihide Tominaga
Yoshihide Tominaga Niigata Institute of Technology
Ryozo Ooka
Ryozo Ooka University of Tokyo
Shinsuke Kato
Shinsuke Kato University of Tokyo
Chao Ren
Chao Ren University of Hong Kong
Jan Carmeliet
Jan Carmeliet ETH Zurich
Staf Roels
Staf Roels KU Leuven
Yozo Fujino
Yozo Fujino Yokohama National University
Ted Stathopoulos
Ted Stathopoulos Concordia University
Horia Hangan
Horia Hangan University of Western Ontario

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