Assess wind flow and resource in urban areas
UrbaWind is a wind flow modeling software especially developed for urban areas and green building. The Pedestrian wind comfort module is dedicated to architects, urban planners, sustainable and environmental engineers. 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 bio-climatic, 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 turbine location to optimize production and lifetime of machinery.
Feel free to ask us for a free trial license by filling out our contact form.
Features
An accurate and full assessment of wind characteristics
Environmental urban planning, green building and urban renewable projects
The buildings arrangement can create unwanted local aerodynamics effects: accelerations at building corners, whirlwinds or accelerations between 2 buildings (Wise or Venturi effects) UrbaWind Pedestrian wind comfort module, uses regional wind statistics, evaluates the local climatology inside the plan, computes the exceeding frequency of wind gusts and produces seasonal or yearly maps of wind or solar radiation. Natural ventilation of buildings For ecological and economic reasons, it is beneficiary to take advantage of the wind as a driving force or an element of the buildings ventilation for the cooling and renewal of the indoor air. However, the constant change in conditions (year seasons and day or night) of the natural ventilation, its dependence on topography, ground roughness and nearby buildings require a quantitative approach which uses numerical computation and modeling of the physical variables. Urbawind Natural Ventilation module estimates the potential for natural ventilation, computes air renewal rate, optimizes the master plan and the openings characteristics. Finally, it quantifies the flow rate of air renewal and delivers climatological reference data for thermal simulations. Wind energy assessment Wind energy production in urban environments, requires an accurate assessment of air flow in |
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Options
Multiple processors cores2, 4 or 63 computer processor cores. The software has the ability to run several directional computations at the same time reducing your computation time from 2 to 8 depending on the configuration. |
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UrbaSun: solar radiation assessment in urban areas
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The license includes one module, three modules are available, one must be selected.
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-bit computing
Graphical card: Mini 256 MB / recommended 512 MB (Meteodyn advises to use a dedicated 3D graphic card instead of integrated graphic card)