Wind in the City

https://share.streamlit.io/nuflo-sarl/windload/main/dashboard/dashboard.py

Just finished another project involving a fluid simulation (CFD) of Luxembourg Kirchberg and including some custom programming (python, geodata). We’re pretty pleased with the outcome. As usual, here are some nice pictures to give you an impression of what is possible with the openfoam.com toolchain.

Microclimate and wind 💨 are important factors to take into account in city planning and building #construction.

Here are some pictures of wind #simulations (#CFD) in a simplified setup of a of a clean demo case and some pictures of a real world simulation of #Luxemburg city 🏙, taking into account terrain and existing buildings. For this simulation we have used custom tools written in #python to extract terrain data from publicly available raster data of Luxembourg city’s terrain, as well as the according #building 3D models. The simulation itself was created with the #openfoam toolchain. In this case simulating a small section of #Kirchberg was acceptable, this can be scaled to whole quarters or city with more computational power. In Luxembourg we rely on #LuxProvide and #meluxina to do so.

What are your experiences with scaling wind simulations to #HPC? Where do you see an application in the public sector? Joachim, Alban, Roger Lampach, Ramona G. Caulea, Robin, Astrid

In this case the results are used to evaluate #windload s on the buildings and to evaluate #windspeed s in the streets - an important factor for pedestrian comfort. Get into contact with us here: https://lnkd.in/eW7N3jBA

🌍 Useful python libraries: rasterio https://lnkd.in/eZqywzgJ, pyproj https://lnkd.in/equ26qfq, pyvista https://github.com/pyvista

Here you can get into contact to discuss an offer: https://lnkd.in/e-EZ-ycM