With the complexity of modern urban areas, pedestrian wind environment simulations become a critical factor in urban design, helping to ensure the overall well-being, safety and comfort in pedestrian zones. Predicting and properly assessing the airflow around a building is a difficult and expensive process when using the experimental approach. Computational fluid dynamics (CFD) simulation is a practical, cost-efficient, and time-efficient alternative to the field measurements or wind tunnel tests.
Skyscrapers have a high risk of being affected by wind, as air pushing against the surface of a tall tower creates vortices that can shake and make buildings vibrate. With SimScale, you can predict and optimize dynamic wind loads on high-rise buildings, test architectural designs and evaluate the flow over constructions as well as the bending and the twisting phenomenon on structures in order to mitigate the effects in the early stages of the building design process.
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