Is EnergyPlus used to perform Pedestrian Wind Comfort Analysis ?

answered 2017-08-01 22:25:16 -0500

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No, EnergyPlus is not used for Pedestrian Wind Analysis. You'll need a CFD software. For a good overview, see something on Bert Blocken's website, such as this

Application of computational fluid dynamics in building performance simulation for the outdoor environment: An overview

There are many CFD packages, I wont try to list them, nor judge whats best, two examples are

DesignBuilder has a CFD capability
For a free, opensource, CFD package, you could use OpenFOAM

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Well I was looking for a Software that was specific to Pedestrian Wind Comfort. Openfoam will require an UI and meshing tool to perform the task.

But anyways thank you for your reply.

chait214 ( 2017-08-02 00:24:53 -0500 )edit

You might be interested in the Rhino/Grasshopper script Butterfly. It is a basic GUI for OpenFOAM and I believe there are some tools included to analyze pedestrian wind comfort, but if you haven't used Grasshopper before it will have a pretty large learning curve.

https://github.com/ladybug-tools/butt...