Optimal location of green zones in metropolitan areas to control the urban heat island

F.J. Fernández ^[4] ; L.J. Alvarez-Vázquez ^[1] ; N. García-Chan ^[2] ; A. Martínez ^[1] ; M.E. Vázquez-Méndez ^[3]
1. [1] Universidade de Vigo
  
  Universidade de Vigo
  
  Vigo, España
2. [2] Universidad de Guadalajara
  
  Universidad de Guadalajara
  
  México
3. [3] Universidade de Santiago de Compostela
  
  Universidade de Santiago de Compostela
  
  Santiago de Compostela, España
4. [4] C.U.D. Escuela Naval Militar, Marín, Spain
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Localización: Journal of computational and applied mathematics, ISSN 0377-0427, Vol. 289, Nº 1 (1 December 2015), 2015, págs. 412-425
Idioma: inglés
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- In this paper we analyze and numerically solve a problem related to the optimal location of green zones in metropolitan areas in order to mitigate the urban heat island effect. So, we consider a microscale climate model and analyze the problem within the framework of optimal control theory of partial differential equations. Finally we compute its numerical solution using the finite element method, with the help of the interior point algorithm IPOPT, interfaced with the FreeFem++ software package.