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arxiv: 2505.14703 · v1 · submitted 2025-05-13 · ⚛️ physics.flu-dyn

A fast and automated approach for urban CFD simulations: integration with meteorological predictions and its application to drone flights

Marcos Su\'arez-V\'azquez , Sylvana Varela Ballesta , Alberto Otero-Cacho , Alberto P. Mu\~nuzuri , Jorge Mira This is my paper

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keywords urban CFDLiDAR datameteorological predictionsdrone simulationswind tunnel validationautomated geometryairflow reconstructioncomputational fluid dynamics
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A CFD method that imports LiDAR and cadastral data directly with meteorological boundary conditions reproduces observed urban winds and supports faster drone interaction tests.

A machine-rendered reading of the paper's core claim, the machinery that carries it, and where it could break.

The paper develops an automated workflow that reads LiDAR terrain scans and cadastral building records straight into a fluid-dynamics solver, then sets inflow conditions from weather-forecast data. The resulting wind fields at a ground station match recorded direction and speed with concordance correlations reaching 0.985 and 0.853. Those same fields feed a separate wind-tunnel model that tracks a moving drone through the extracted currents instead of embedding the drone inside the full city mesh. The approach therefore removes the usual manual geometry-cleanup step and cuts the compute cost of drone-wind studies.

Core claim

By importing LiDAR and cadastral data without intermediate manual refinement to define the simulation geometry and by using meteorological predictions to set boundary conditions, the CFD model produces urban wind fields whose direction and speed agree with station measurements to concordance correlation coefficients of 0.985 and 0.853; these fields then validate a wind-tunnel representation of a moving drone that reproduces the same interactions at far lower computational cost than a full urban-domain run.

What carries the argument

Direct import of LiDAR and cadastral data to generate terrain, building, vegetation, water, and ground geometry inside the CFD domain, coupled with meteorological predictions as inflow boundary conditions.

If this is right

  • Urban wind fields can be generated without labor-intensive geometry cleanup steps.
  • Drone-wind interaction studies can be performed by extracting currents from the city model and testing them in a separate wind-tunnel simulation.
  • Computation time for drone path validation drops substantially compared with embedding the vehicle inside the full urban mesh.
  • Meteorological forecasts can be used directly as time-varying boundary conditions for city-scale airflow predictions.

Where Pith is reading between the lines

These are editorial extensions of the paper, not claims the author makes directly.

  • Frequent LiDAR updates could enable near-real-time urban wind maps for operational drone routing.
  • The same automated pipeline might be applied to wind-load assessment on bridges, towers, or pedestrian zones.
  • Coupling the extracted wind fields with trajectory optimizers could produce safer autonomous flight corridors in variable urban winds.
  • Extension to larger metropolitan domains would require only parallel computing resources rather than new modeling techniques.

Load-bearing premise

LiDAR and cadastral data imported without further manual refinement or detailed vegetation modeling still produce a geometry accurate enough to capture the dominant wind interactions with urban features.

What would settle it

A side-by-side comparison at the meteorological station location that yields concordance correlations well below the reported 0.985 for direction or 0.853 for speed would falsify the claim that the model reproduces real urban winds.

Figures

Figures reproduced from arXiv: 2505.14703 by Alberto Otero-Cacho, Alberto P. Mu\~nuzuri, Jorge Mira, Marcos Su\'arez-V\'azquez, Sylvana Varela Ballesta.

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Figure 1. Figure 1: (a) Geometry used for the calibration process representing the Campus Sur in the University [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p005_1.png] view at source ↗
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Figure 2. Figure 2: (a) Example of a boundary condition generated for the calibration geometry in the University [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p007_2.png] view at source ↗
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Figure 3. Figure 3: Overview of the simulation process. We start by selecting an appropriate mesh for both (a) [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p008_3.png] view at source ↗
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Figure 4. Figure 4: Visualization of the velocity and vorticity fields in a plane 5 m above ground level for an [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p009_4.png] view at source ↗
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Figure 5. Figure 5: Boxplot of wind speed and direction errors at 10 m for each model considering the averaged [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p010_5.png] view at source ↗
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Figure 6. Figure 6: Comparison of each daily simulation (at 9:00 AM) with its corresponding real-life measure [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p011_6.png] view at source ↗
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Figure 7. Figure 7: Linear regression of the simulated and measured wind speeds (left column) and wind direc [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p012_7.png] view at source ↗
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Figure 8. Figure 8: Comparison of the forces acting over the drone geometry using both approaches. The dotted [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p013_8.png] view at source ↗
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Figure 1. Figure 1: Reconstruction of the Chamber´ı neighborhood in Madrid. [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p018_1.png] view at source ↗
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Figure 2. Figure 2: Reconstruction of the old part of Vigo, near the port. The blue part represents the sea. [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p019_2.png] view at source ↗
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Figure 3. Figure 3: Reconstruction of the city of Ronda, in M´alaga. This city is known for being built over a [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p019_3.png] view at source ↗
read the original abstract

In past years, several studies have proposed new methods and applications for urban wind simulations. In this article, we present a fast and automatic methodology for reconstructing airflows within urban environments using LiDAR and cadastral data coupled with Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD) simulations. Our approach integrates meteorological predictions with computational techniques to simulate the complex interactions between wind currents, buildings, vegetation, water zones and terrain morphology within urban environments. Accurate boundary conditions based on meteorological predictions are introduced into a coupled methodology that directly creates the terrain shape inside the simulation environment, simplifying the geometry creation process, which is one of the most prevalent problems in CFD urban simulations. The simulation results are confronted against ground-truth real data obtained from a meteorological station, showing strong agreement with the outcomes generated by the proposed CFD model, with a concordance correlation coefficient up to $\rho_c = 0.985$ for the wind direction and $\rho_c = 0.853$ for the wind speed. The results from these simulations are then used for validating a wind tunnel approach that mimics the interaction between a moving drone and the extracted wind currents, demonstrating a great improvement in computation times when compared to the most straightforward approach that consists in embedding the drone within the full urban landscape. This research contributes to the advancement of urban CFD modeling, and it has significant implications for various applications, providing valuable insights for urban development.

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Referee Report

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Summary. The manuscript presents an automated pipeline for urban CFD wind simulations that directly imports LiDAR and cadastral data to generate terrain, buildings, vegetation, water zones, and morphology inside the solver, couples this geometry with meteorological boundary conditions, validates the resulting wind fields against an independent meteorological station (reporting concordance correlation coefficients up to ρ_c = 0.985 for direction and 0.853 for speed), and then employs the simulated wind fields to validate a reduced-order wind-tunnel model for drone–wind interactions that yields substantial computational savings relative to embedding the drone in the full-city domain.

Significance. If the validation evidence is robust, the work would provide a practical, low-setup-time route to urban wind modeling with direct relevance to drone flight planning and urban planning. The integration of real meteorological predictions and the reported speed-up for the drone application are clear strengths; however, the evidential weight of the station comparison hinges on whether the direct-import geometry adequately represents the dominant drag and turbulence sources.

major comments (1)
  1. [Methods / Geometry creation] The central validation claim (concordance with station data) rests on the premise that direct LiDAR + cadastral import produces a geometry that correctly captures wind interactions with vegetation. The manuscript states that the approach simulates “complex interactions between wind currents, buildings, vegetation, water zones and terrain morphology” yet provides no description of how vegetation is represented (solid obstacle, porous-media zone, or volumetric drag term parameterized by leaf-area density). In urban CFD this choice is load-bearing; omission or incorrect treatment would systematically under-predict drag and turbulence production, undermining the interpretation of the reported ρ_c values. A concrete statement of the vegetation modeling (or a justification that it is negligible at the station location) is required.
minor comments (2)
  1. [Abstract and Results] The abstract reports ρ_c values but supplies neither error bars, the number of data points, nor any mention of data exclusion criteria; these details should appear in the validation section or a supplementary table.
  2. [Validation section] Notation for the concordance coefficient is introduced without reference to the standard definition (Lin, 1989) or to the precise implementation used; a short methods paragraph or citation would remove ambiguity.

Simulated Author's Rebuttal

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We thank the referee for their careful and constructive review of our manuscript. The single major comment identifies a genuine omission in the description of vegetation representation within the automated geometry pipeline. We have revised the manuscript to supply the requested concrete statement, thereby strengthening the interpretation of the station validation results without altering the underlying methodology or reported metrics.

read point-by-point responses

  1. Referee: [Methods / Geometry creation] The central validation claim (concordance with station data) rests on the premise that direct LiDAR + cadastral import produces a geometry that correctly captures wind interactions with vegetation. The manuscript states that the approach simulates “complex interactions between wind currents, buildings, vegetation, water zones and terrain morphology” yet provides no description of how vegetation is represented (solid obstacle, porous-media zone, or volumetric drag term parameterized by leaf-area density). In urban CFD this choice is load-bearing; omission or incorrect treatment would systematically under-predict drag and turbulence production, undermining the interpretation of the reported ρ_c values. A concrete statement of the vegetation modeling (or a justification that it is negligible at the station location) is required.

    Authors: We agree that an explicit description of vegetation treatment is necessary to support the validation claims. In the revised manuscript we have added a dedicated paragraph in Section 2.2 (Geometry generation) stating that vegetation is modeled as a volumetric porous-medium zone. Leaf-area density is derived directly from the classified LiDAR returns within each grid cell; a quadratic drag term with coefficients taken from the literature for urban canopy elements is then applied to the momentum equations. We have also confirmed and now report that the meteorological station used for validation lies in a largely open area with negligible local vegetation cover, so that any modeling uncertainty in the vegetation term has minimal influence on the measured ρ_c values. These additions are presented without changing the numerical results or the overall conclusions. revision: yes

Circularity Check

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No significant circularity; validation uses external station data and direct time comparisons

full rationale

The paper derives urban wind fields from LiDAR/cadastral geometry plus meteorological boundary conditions, then validates the resulting fields against independent ground-truth measurements from a meteorological station (concordance coefficients ρ_c = 0.985 direction, 0.853 speed). This agreement is an external benchmark rather than a fitted or self-defined quantity. The drone-related claim is a straightforward wall-clock comparison between a wind-tunnel surrogate and a full-city embedding simulation; neither step reduces by the paper's own equations to a parameter that was tuned on the target result. No self-citation is invoked as a uniqueness theorem or load-bearing premise, and no ansatz or renaming is presented as a derivation. The chain therefore remains self-contained against external data.

Axiom & Free-Parameter Ledger

0 free parameters · 1 axioms · 0 invented entities

The approach rests on standard CFD assumptions and data-processing choices rather than new free parameters or invented physical entities.

axioms (1)
  • domain assumption Standard turbulence closure models in CFD are adequate to represent urban-scale wind flows when geometry is supplied by LiDAR and cadastral data.
    Invoked implicitly when the authors state that the imported geometry directly enables accurate simulation of wind interactions.

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