Where Theory Meets Practical Use:
Hands-On Introduction to Using CFD for Wind Engineering

Friday, May 28, 2010
William and Ida Friday Center for Continuing Education
Chapel Hill, North Carolina, USA
Attendance is limited to 30 participants. 

You may register by selecting the appropriate box on the Symposium Registration form.

Abstract: Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD) has become an essential predictive and design tool for the wind engineering community. This short course is tailored for engineers and researchers who are interested in getting an initial hands-on exposure to the CFD-based numerical prediction of how atmospheric flows affect wind resource assessment (WRA), the design of wind farms, wind energy turbines and blades.  It is an excellent hands-on complement to the Pre-Symposium Workshops being offered at CWE2010, or can be taken on its own (assuming some prior familiarity with CFD at least equivalent to the 3-day Workshop being offered by Prof. Meroney on May 21-23)

The course focus is on gaining insight into the specific operational mechanics of setting up, running, and examining the results of CFD simulations through the hands-on use of the modern, state-of-the-art CFD environment STAR-CCM+ (no prior STAR-CCM+ user experience is required) . This short course is tailored for gaining an initial hands-on feeling of how to use CFD for wind engineering simulations. Concepts will be taught through course note-based lectures, demonstrations by the instructor, and by using STAR-CCM+ to complete a number of exercises.  Attendees will not be experts at the end of this course, but will be able to assess the suitability of STAR-CCM+ for their daily work. One classroom PC access during the Workshop will be provided for every two attendees.
The course is divided into two parts:

• Morning (9 AM - Noon): This section will give an overview of applying STAR-CCM+ and the EnviroWizard to wind farm simulation and WRA.  STAR-CCM+ is a large, general-purpose CFD enviroment, with the EnviroWizard allowing users to focus on environmental flows and wind farm-specific problems more quickly and efficiently.
• Afternoon (1-4 PM): This section will cover the dynamic simulation of wind flows around buildings in the urban environment.

About the Presenters: this hands-on workshop will be taught/supervised by experienced technical training/support engineers from CD-adapco and introduced by Dr. Dennis A. Nagy, Vice President of Business Development at CD-adapco. Questions concerning this Workshop  may be directed to Dr. Nagy at dennis.nagy@us.cd-adapco.com

Cost:
US $150

The workshop registration fee includes morning light breakfast /refreshment break, buffet lunch, and afternoon refreshment break.