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Software news CityFFD – Urban environment and energy simulations on GPUs
Understanding the multi-physics and multi-scale interactions for urban environment and energy performances is becoming essential, driven by broad concerns over climate change and interests in smart city designs and operations. Such an analysis is often associated with computational fluid dynamics simulations of urban aerodynamics and thermal conditions at a building level, whereas existing models have been limited by computing costs, data availability, and large-scale validations and accuracies. Dr. Leon Wang’s team at Concordia University developed CityFFD – City Fast Fluid Dynamics, with its supporting web portal of digital cities. Speed and accuracy are maintained through novel numerical algorithms with large eddy simulation implemented on graphics processing units (GPU) and validated through a wide range of benchmark cases. We demonstrated a new approach to modeling urban microclimate by CFD on GPUs widely available on modern PCs. Learn More at https://users.encs.concordia.ca/~leonwang/moodle/ and https:// doi.org/10.1016/j.uclim.2021.101063. n
cove.tool update their HVAC design software, loadmodeling.tool In 2021, cove.tool launched loadmodeling.tool (https://www.cove.tools/ loadmodelingtool-hvac-design), a robust HVAC design and load modeling program designed to empower mechanical engineers, energy modelers, and HVAC contractors to design, optimize, and collaborate within the cove.tool platform. The automated tool can help establish peak cooling and heating loads to design and right-size mechanical systems. The software’s interoperability and ease of use has revolutionized the way engineers design and optimize their models.
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