[TRNSYS-users] generating wind pressure coefficients

Dols, William Stuart (Fed) william.dols at nist.gov
Mon Jul 6 05:55:01 PDT 2020


David,
You can use CFD0 incorporated into the CFD0Editor to generate wind pressure coefficient profiles for your specific building geometry.
Please see the following web page for the Coupled Multizone-CFD Tutorial which provides a link to a zip file that contains a CONTAM-30-Tutorial.pdf and files required to run the example cases. https://www.nist.gov/el/energy-and-environment-division-73200/nist-multizone-modeling/software-tools/contam/tutorials
See CASE 2: Exterior Zone Coupling within the PDF for a tutorial on how to accomplish this using the CFD0 Editor.
- Stuart

W. Stuart Dols
National Institute of Standards and Technology
Engineering Laboratory
Energy and Environment Division
Indoor Air Quality and Ventilation Group
Gaithersburg, MD USA



From: TRNSYS-users <trnsys-users-bounces at lists.onebuilding.org> On Behalf Of Jean Marais via TRNSYS-users
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I would also love to know. I've been pushing for DesignBuilder to incorporate this into their external CFD Model so I can transfer the boundary conditions easily to e+. I've been waiting 7 years at least. Till now, I've been using the algorithm in e+ AFN modules, but it's not ideal. I have to manually tweak for courtyards, and so on.

Am Di., 30. Juni 2020 um 07:39 Uhr schrieb David BRADLEY via TRNSYS-users <trnsys-users at lists.onebuilding.org<mailto:trnsys-users at lists.onebuilding.org>>:

Colleagues,

  Does anyone have any suggestions for tools to help with generating wind pressure coefficient values for buildings? I used to use CpGenerator and was very happy with its results. Sadly, it is no longer available. CPCALC is a little rough around the edges and I do not have project time or budget to get Cp values by testing. I imagine that the values can be generated by CFD analysis but I have no direct experience in that regard. I am interested to know whether people have found cost effective ways of generating Cp values.

I hope everyone is staying healthy!

David



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