| Title: | Modeling heat transfer in an urban settlement with 3D cellular automata and artificial intelligence |
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| Authors: | ID Leskovar, Robert (Author) |
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| Files: |  https://press.um.si/index.php/ump/en/catalog/book/1132/chapter/1265
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| Language: | English |
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| Work type: | Article |
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| Typology: | 1.16 - Independent Scientific Component Part or a Chapter in a Monograph |
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| Organization: | FOV - Faculty of Organizational Sciences in Kranj
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| Abstract: | This chapter presents a three-dimensional (3D) cellular automata (CA) model simulating
urban heat transfer in an artificial 50 × 50 × 20 m city block at moderate latitude
(� = 46.24◦ N). Each cell is assigned one of five material classes — outdoor air,
asphalt, park/grass, structural concrete, and interior air — and advances temperature
states through eight physics layers: conductive diffusion, solar heating, nocturnal radiative
cooling, free-atmosphere relaxation, asphalt plume convection, surface Newton
cooling, interior ventilation, and boundary conditions. A distinguishing aspect of this
work is its development workflow: rather than conventional coding, human-specified
intent and domain constraints in natural language guided Claude AI (Anthropic) [27]
in generating, debugging, and iteratively refining the Python implementation. The human
supplied physical intuition, validated outputs, and corrected physically implausible
results through a joint debugging process. Preliminary simulations over a 30-day May
period demonstrate realistic diurnal temperature cycles, street-surface temperatures 4–
6 ◦C above park surfaces at solar noon, and an asphalt plume decaying exponentially up
to 10 m above ground. These results confirm the CA paradigm’s suitability for urban
heat studies [5, 2] and illustrate the potential of large language model (LLM)-assisted
scientific prototyping. |
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| Keywords: | cellular automata, urban heat transfer, human-machine interaction, AI, assisted coding, urban microclimate |
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| Publication status: | Published |
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| Publication version: | Version of Record |
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| Publication date: | 18.06.2026 |
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| Year of publishing: | 2026 |
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| Number of pages: | Str. 151-168 |
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| PID: | 20.500.12556/DKUM-98847  |
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| UDC: | 004.8 |
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| COBISS.SI-ID: | 283876355 |
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| DOI: | 10.18690/um.fov.5.2026.8 |
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| Publication date in DKUM: | 13.07.2026 |
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