Assess wind flow and resource in urban areas
UrbaWind is a wind flow modelling software especially developed for urban areas and green building support. The Pedestrian wind comfort module is dedicated to architects, sustainable and environemental engineers, urban planners. It determines areas of possible wind discomfort to make safe and comfortable urban environments around buildings.
The Natural Ventilation module is dedicated to architects, HVAC engineers and designers. It estimates natural air ventilation inside buildings to design bioclimatic, passive and high performance buildings. The Energy resource module is dedicated to small wind developers, sustainable consultants and turbines manufacturers. It computes on-site wind potential and validates wind turbines location to optimize production and lifetime of machinery.
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Features
An accurate and full assessment of the wind characteristics…
…for environmental urban planning, green building and urban Renewables projects
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 |
Assets
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Options
Multiprocessors2,4 or 63 processors. Ability to run several directional computations at the same time and reduce your computation time from 2 to 8 depending on the configuration. |
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UrbaSun: solar radiation assessement in urban areas
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License includes one module to choose.
3 modules are available.
Feel free to ask us for a free trial license by filling out our contact form.
UrbaWind is compatible with commonly used CAD software.
System Requirements – Download full requirements
OS: Windows 10
RAM: mini 8Gb / recommended 16 Gb
Processor: mini 2 GHz
Multiprocessors: Mini dual core / recommended 64 bits
Graphical card: Mini 256 Mo / recommended 512 Mo (Meteodyn advises to use a dedicated 3D graphic card instead of integrated graphic card such as Intel HD)