From Dynamic Building Simulation to Dynamic CFD

Dynamic CFD (∂CFD) is a tool purpose-built for buildings that runs dynamic CFD from hourly building simulation data. It integrates tightly with energy and thermal models throughout a whole day, capturing airflow with real-time window and vent opening profiles alongside evolving room and surface temperatures. This fully coupled approach delivers realistic, time-dependent airflow and thermal comfort insights that reflect actual indoor environmental conditions. Agenda:

1. What is CFD and why is it used for building design?
2. The problems with using legacy CFD tools and why CFD isn't a mainstream part of every design.
3. An introduction to Dynamic CFD (∂CFD), a complete redesign of CFD intrinsically linked to building thermal and energy models.
4. ∂CFD live demo and use cases; Data centers, natural ventilation & overheating and HVAC configurations, spacing and performance.
5. Validation cases for ∂CFD
6. Q&A and how to get started

Speaker: IAN HIGHTON BSc, MSc: Technical Director

Ian Highton Technical Director at EDSL. Originally studied Mathematics and Computing at Durham, then Applied Mathematics at Cranfield Institute for MSc and PhD. Has worked on the specification, architecture and development of software for the thermal, energy and environmental analysis of buildings for over 35 years. Since the late 90s, has overseen the complete re-development of Tas as a native Windows product, from its previous workstation platforms. Is currently continuing to work on day-to-day Tas development, but is also devising a ‘next generation’ set of calculation procedures to take advantage of GPUs and neural networks.