... flow pattern and pressure field, and that values from outdoor simulation with solid block building models can be used as boundaries for indoor simulation. Using a site plan and an apartment complex design as an example, the following ...

Understand how computational fluid dynamics (CFD) is applied to building design. This guide for non-experts gives guidance on best practice, focussing on fire safety, ventilation, thermal comfort and wind movement around buildings.

These outcomes help guide the design of the roof-top geometry for wind power applications and determine the ideal position for mounting a micro wind turbine.

Undergraduate or graduate students in architecture, urban planning, geography, architectural engineering, and other engineering fields, along with building performance and simulation professionals, can use this book to gain additional ...

The wind environment around buildings and the wind pressures on building surfaces are studied by scale-model experiments in wind tunnels and confirmed by full scale measurements.

This work is about prediction of the pressure distribution on building surfaces due to the natural wind, with computational fluid dynamics simulations on meshes that are as coarse as possible.

... Study Two - Beijing Star Garden for more information . SUMMARY This chapter shows how engineers can use CFD to help ... building with satisfactory indoor and outdoor comfort environment . This design procedure , undertaken by a ...

There is a reciprocal relationship between wind and buildings, as they each affect the other.

This book explores wind-adaptive architectural design blending the parametric design with digital simulations and suggests a novel approach for specific, even extreme conditions, as the first step in creating architecture that can act in ...

Buildings and other structures, all components and cladding thereof, shall be designed and constructed to resist the wind loads are required in all wind codes.