UrbaWind

An accurate and full assessment of the wind characteristics…

• Mean speed and wind gust

• Wind directions

• Turbulence intensity

• Mean pressure coefficients on buildings

…for environmental urban planning, green building and urban Renewables projects

Pedestrian wind comfort

The buildings arrangement can create unwanted local aerodynamics effects: accelerations at buildings’ corners, whirlwinds or accelerations between 2 buildings (Wise or Venturi effects)…UrbaWind Pedestrian wind comfort module, using regional wind statistics, evaluates the local climatology inside the plan mass, computes the exceeding frequency of wind gusts, produces seasonal or yearly maps of wind or solar radiation.

Natural ventilation of buildings

For ecological and economic reasons, it is worthwhile to take benefit of the wind as a driving force or an element of the buildings ventilation for its refreshment or the indoor air renewal. However, the variability (season, day/night) of the natural ventilation potential, its dependence on topography, ground roughness and nearby buildings make necessary a quantitative approach, using numerical computation and modelling of the physical phenomena.Urbawind Natural Ventilation module estimates the potential for natural ventilation, computes air renewal rate, optimizes the mass plan and the openings characteristics. Finally, it quantifies the flow rate of air renewal and delivers climatological reference data for the thermal simulations.

Wind energy assessment

Wind energy production in built environment or near constructions, needs an accurate assessment of air flows in
order to evaluate the resource, as well as the risks due to the perturbed environment.Urbawind Energy module evaluates the yearly expected production and gives you the key information to choose the best equipment and the most productive locations.