Publications de Nataliya Filchakova

Energy modelling of city housing stock and its temporal evolution

Darren Robinson, Urs Wilke, Nataliya Filchakova

2009

Urban District Energy Futures: A Dynamic Material Flow Analysis (MFA) Model

Jean-Louis Scartezzini, Darren Robinson, Nataliya Filchakova

With more than half the world population now urbanised, urban metabolism – defined as the throughput and transformation of material and energy flows to sustain human life in urban settlements – is responsible for consuming the majority of global resources ...

EPFL2007

Towards an evolutionary model of city sustainability

Jean-Louis Scartezzini, Jérôme Henri Kämpf, Darren Robinson, Adil Rasheed, Nataliya Filchakova

In part stimulated by the computer game industry, reasonable progress has been made in the dynamic modelling of urban growth and land use change. However, sustainability considerations in this work remain to be addressed. Yet the environmental impact of ci ...

2007

Quo vadis thermodynamics and the city: a critical review of applications of thermodynamic methods to urban systems

Jean-Louis Scartezzini, Darren Robinson, Nataliya Filchakova

Cities are complex dynamic entities. From a thermodynamic perspective, they represent open systems, constantly importing and exporting energy and matter across their boundaries; the output invariably being less ordered due to irreversible internal processe ...

2007

Quo vadis thermodynamics and the city: a critical review of applications of thermodynamic methods to urban systems

Jean-Louis Scartezzini, Darren Robinson, Nataliya Filchakova

2007