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Natural ventilation, also known as passive ventilation, is the process of supplying and removing air through an indoor space without using a mechanical system, such as a fan or any form of air conditioning (AC). It is driven by wind and stack effects based on temperature and pressure differences, as well as on outdoor wind speeds. Natural ventilation can provide comfort to occupants while at the same time reducing energy costs and environmental impact.
This type of ventilation can be applied to a number of scenarios, such as in buildings or structures:
Designs that employ natural ventilation as the main source of air filtration must meet specific/strict regulatory standards and avoid safety hazards from air stagnation. The performance of a natural or passive ventilation system must be analyzed in the early design. However, the high cost of hardware and steep learning curves of traditional, on-premises tools leave many designers to feel that simulation is not an option.
SimScale has eliminated such traditional hurdles, thanks to the power of the cloud. With SimScale, engineers can:
“Working with SimScale gave us the possibility to inspect which of the architectural and technical solutions works the best way and give us certainty about our decisions. One other big factor is the speed in which SimScale can deliver results, through its great parallelization capacity. Without SimScale, we wouldn’t be able to deliver high quality results in the required time period.”
“Working with SimScale gave us the possibility to inspect which of the architectural and technical solutions works the best way and give us certainty about our decisions. One other big factor is the speed in which SimScale can deliver results, through its great parallelization capacity. Without SimScale, we wouldn’t be able to deliver high quality results in the required time period.”
“SimScale gives me, for the first time as a small specialized engineering office, the possibility to use CFD simulations for building optimization. Other software packages cause much too high investment costs for hardware and software.”
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