Marzieh Fallahpour

My expertise and research interests include:

• Health and Wellbeing in the Built Environment
• Thermal Comfort and Overheating Risk
• Indoor air quality
• Natural ventilation
• Building energy modelling
• CFD in Built Environment

Current research activity

• ERBE CDT PhD project: Modelling summertime window opening behaviour in city apartments

Recently completed research projects

• Geometrical Parametric Study of Wind-Driven Natural Ventilation to Improve Indoor Air Quality and Air Exchange in Offices
• Strategies towards reducing carbon emission in university campuses
• Developing a Tempo-spatial framework for thermal comfort analysis of urban heat island with coupling of CFD and building energy simulation
• Airborne and aerosol pathogen transmission modeling of respiratory events in buildings: Minimizing the respiratory pathogen transmission

• Aghamolaei, R., & Fallahpour, M. (2023). Strategies towards reducing carbon emission in university campuses: A comprehensive review of both global and local scales. Journal of Building Engineering, 76, 107183. https://doi.org/10.1016/J.JOBE.2023.107183
• Aghamolaei, R., Fallahpour, M., Zhang, R., & Mirzaei, P. A. (2023). A Thermal Comfort Modelling Framework for Urban Neighbourhoods: Tempo-Spatial Coupling of Building Energy and CFD Models. Environmental Science and Engineering, 2849–2859. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-19-9822-5_304
• Fallahpour, M., Aghamolaei, R., Zhang, R., & Mirzaei, P. A. (2022). Outdoor thermal comfort in urban neighbourhoods by coupling of building energy simulation and computational fluid dynamics. Building and Environment, 225, 109599. https://doi.org/10.1016/J.BUILDENV.2022.109599
• Sheikhnejad, Y., Aghamolaei, R., Fallahpour, M., Motamedi, H., Moshfeghi, M., Mirzaei, P. A., & Bordbar, H. (2022). Airborne and aerosol pathogen transmission modeling of respiratory events in buildings: An overview of computational fluid dynamics. Sustainable Cities and Society, 79, 103704. https://doi.org/10.1016/J.SCS.2022.103704
• Arjmandi, H., Amini, R., khani, F., & Fallahpour, M. (2022). Minimizing the respiratory pathogen transmission: Numerical study and multi-objective optimization of ventilation systems in a classroom. Thermal Science and Engineering Progress, 28. https://doi.org/10.1016/J.TSEP.2021.101052
• Aghamolaei, R., Fallahpour, M., & Mirzaei, P. A. (2021). Tempo-spatial thermal comfort analysis of urban heat island with coupling of CFD and building energy simulation. Energy and Buildings, 251, 111317. https://doi.org/10.1016/J.ENBUILD.2021.111317

Undergraduate

• Passive design of residential buildings

Engineering tools

• ANSYS FLUENT
• Design Builder

Before joining Loughborough University, I worked as an architect and energy consultant for building energy performance analysis, building physics, and energy optimisation. I also contributed as a researcher to some academic teams on the topics of urban neighbourhood thermal comfort, airborne and species transmission in indoor spaces, and natural ventilation to Improve indoor air quality.

I graduated from the University of Tehran with a MSc in Architecture and Energy (2013). My expertise lies in sustainable building design, building energy modeling (BEM), and computational fluid dynamics (CFD), with a particular focus on occupant-centered health and wellbeing, and low-energy buildings like Passivhaus.

My software skills include:

• EnergyPlus
• ANSYS FLUENT
• Design Builder
• Open Foam
• Honeybee & Ladybug
• Revit

Awards

• Full EPSRC Scholarship for 4 years during MRes and PhD studies

External activities

• Journal Referee: Physics of fluids