[EnergyPlus_Support] Re: WPC values: get a wind tunnel?

["Jean marais" <jeannieboef@xxxxxxxxx>]

I'm glad you read the documentation, and know that the auto function applies to rectagular buildings. You probably also read the suggestion to look for published studies. CFD is the right direction. I don't know of another way...possibly hand calcs are.

--- In EnergyPlus_Support@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx, "g.gamblin" <g.gamblin@...> wrote:
>
> Hi Dave, hi E+ users,
> 
> Did you find a way to get those WPC for a non rectangular building?
> I am thinking of using Fluent but might take quite some time! Is there any tool that could provide those coefficients easily for a building?
> 
> Regards,
> 
> Gabriel
> 
> --- In EnergyPlus_Support@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx, Dave Bosworth <dboz66@> wrote:
> >
> > 
> > Hello Energy Plus users -
> > 
> > When specifying an airflow network for a non-rectangular building - where do experienced people go for wind pressure coefficients if you don't have a wind tunnel?  Is there a readily available, reasonably easy to use, and reasonably reliable CFD source that you would recommend?  Other sources that don't require massive computation time?  Tables?  Charts?  Databases?
> > 
> > thanks in advance,
> > 
> > dave
> > 
> > 
> > David Bosworth
> > Research Assistant
> > Cornell University
> > Program in Computer Graphics
> > Ithaca New York
> >
>




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