Nuada.CFD
Who has seen the wind? We have! Nuada.CFD lets engineers and designers visualize wind flow to minimize its effects on buildings and their inhabitants.
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The complex, often turbulent movement of wind can have a significant influence on building design. That’s why our CORE studio developed Nuada.CFD. Nuada.CFD lets you optimize the aerodynamics of buildings to minimize the effects of wind on their structures and façades.
Here’s How
Nuada.CFD precisely replicates urban wind flow, producing color visualizations of wind movement around and between buildings. It uses highly accurate transient computational fluid dynamics (CFD) to assess outdoor pedestrian comfort, structural loading and façade pressures. This enables our engineers to incorporate wind effects into our designs and allows us to better understand them earlier in the design process.
Nuada.CFD’s novel computational design method incorporates the climatic effects of wind, accounting for their influence on the microclimate on and around buildings, and enables us to ensure the highest level of occupant comfort in outdoor urban spaces and on rooftop terraces. It also evaluates the effects of wind loading and façade pressures on high-rise buildings during the early stages of design. The program’s interface feeds seamlessly into the digital design process, combining geometry, BIM, structural analysis and computational fluid dynamics (CFD) components into a single holistic workflow.
Thornton Tomasetti's CFD Community of Practice (CoP) developed from an internal event called the CFD Summit. The community has been a springboard for cross-practice and business development opportunities, including spinning off Bioclimatic Design during the COVID-19 pandemic and Nuada.CFD, a digital wind tunnel app.
Nuada.CFD’s quick turnaround means that our engineers can collaborate with the wider design team and update our building designs in near-real time.
Links
Click here to download Nuada.CFD for free.
Click here to gain access to Nuada.CFD through SimScale.
Click here for the Nuada.CFD end user license agreement.
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