Home Airflow and Microclimate Simulations for Rhino & Grasshopper
🚀 Features
USER-FRIENDLINESS
Clean and easy-to-use UI for urban wind flow analysis.
BUILT FOR REAL WORLD APPLICATIONS
Add realistic terrain to your simulation setup.
OUTDOOR THERMAL COMFORT
Annual outdoor thermal comfort assessment for climate-responsive masterplanning.
SEAMLESS INTEGRATION
Post-processing of custom surfaces for Air Flow Network integration into EnergyPlus.
STREAMLINED SIMULATION SETUP
Urban turntable for fast outdoor airflow analysis.
VALIDATED SIMULATION ENGINE
Accurate results by using well-established solvers.
🎓 Publications Kastner, P., & Dogan, T. (2021). Eddy3D: A toolkit for decoupled outdoor thermal comfort simulations in urban areas . Building and Environment .
Young, E., Kastner, P., Dogan, T., Chokhachian, A., Mokhtar, S., & Reinhart, C. (2021). Modeling outdoor thermal comfort along cycling routes at varying levels of physical accuracy to predict bike ridership in Cambridge, MA . Building and Environment.
De Simone, Z., Kastner, P., Dogan, T. (2021). Towards Safer Work Environments During the COVID-19 Crisis: A Study of Different Floor Plan Layouts and Ventilation Strategies Coupling Open FOAM and Airborne Pathogen Data for Actionable, Simulation-based Feedback in Design. Building Simulation 2021 Conference.
Dogan, T., Kastner, P., Mermelstein, R. (2021). Surfer: A fast simulation algorithm to predict surface temperatures and mean radiant temperatures in large urban models. Journal of Building and Environment.
Dogan, T., Kastner, P. (2020). Streamlined CFD simulation framework to generate wind-pressure coefficients on building facades for airflow network simulations. Journal of Building Simulation.
Natanian, J., Kastner, P., Dogan T., Auer T. (2020). From energy performative to livable Mediterranean cities: An annual outdoor thermal comfort and energy balance cross-climatic typological study. Energy & Buildings.
Kastner, P., Dogan, T. (2020). Predicting space usage by multi-objective assessment of outdoor thermal comfort around a university campus. Proceedings of SimAUD 2020.
Kastner, P., Dogan, T. (2020). Solving Thermal Bridging Problems for Architectural Applications with OpenFOAM. Proceedings of SimAUD 2020.
Kastner, P., Dogan, T. (2019). A cylindrical meshing methodology for annual urban computational fluid dynamics simulations. Journal of Building Performance Simulation, 13(1), 59-68.
Kastner, P., Dogan, T. (2019). Towards High-Resolution Annual Outdoor Thermal Comfort Mapping In Urban Design. Building Simulation 2019 Conference.
Kastner, P., Dogan, T. (2018). Streamlining meshing methodologies for annual urban CFD simulations. Proceedings of eSim 2018.
Dogan, T., Kastner, P. (2018). Streamlined CFD Simulation Framework to Generate Wind-Pressure Coefficients on Building Facades for Airflow Network Simulations. Proceedings of IBPC 2018.
👥 Team Patrick Kastner Sina Rahimi Gonzalo Vegas Marcelo Álvarez Timur Dogan 👥 Advisors & Alumni Tobias Holzmann Remy Mermelstein Zoe De Simone
Eddy3D is being developed as a cross-disciplinary project through a collaboration between the Georgia Tech School of Architecture, the Environmental Systems Lab at Cornell AAP, and the Systems Engineering department at Cornell Engineering.
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