Design of large building spaces for human comfort is a challenge due to complex building geometry. Simple heat load based air-conditioning design may not suffice to ensure acceptable human comfort. Design based on such an approach would provide macro-level information without local variation and may lead to over design in general or design failure at specific locations. CFD simulation using Autodesk CFD provides a convenient way of evaluating human comfort throughout the building space. In this class, you will identify specific workflows in Autodesk CFD to simulate air flow and heat transfer in a large auditorium building. You will implement workflows related to geometry preparation, applying boundary conditions and visualizing airflow, temperature and thermal comfort parameters. Based on CFD results, you will assess if thermal comfort requirements are met or not. You will be able to validate the design for adequacy including any design change required before actual construction.

As demand for high performance buildings increases, more sophisticated techniques are needed to ensure a balance between energy efficiency and occupant comfort. Innovative ventilation and energy management approaches require an understanding of airflow patterns and the influence of heat gains or losses. Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD) enables detailed modeling of these physics yet has historically been too difficult to use early in a project cycle during conceptual design and design development. Over the past 10 years simulation technologies have evolved to become faster, more user-friendly, and more accurate. Autodesk® Simulation CFD 360 is a proven cloud-based tool for examining how air is delivered to and exhausted from a space and the impact of thermal loads. This class will introduce you to CFD workflows and show you how to take full advantage of Simulation CFD 360 for rapid ventilation analysis.

This class will cover the use of Autodesk CFD Simulation software in the design of cooling and backup power infrastructure for business continuity in data centers. Data-center business is poised for rapid growth around the world. Well-designed cooling and backup power infrastructure is critical to data-center performance. Autodesk CFD is a useful tool for evaluating design strategies to optimize data-center cooling and improve energy efficiency. You’ll learn how to characterize data-center and backup power components in an Autodesk CFD model. You’ll learn how to identify strategies to develop an Autodesk CFD model for airflow and temperature simulation. We’ll highlight assumptions made to reduce overall complexity without losing design intent. You’ll learn to capture important results and evaluate the design for effective cooling to ensure business continuity of a data center.

For high-performance HVAC systems such as radiant heating and cooling, underfloor air distribution (UFAD), and natural ventilation and hybrid systems that use both natural and mechanical conditioning of a building, it is critical to understand how the air flows and the surrounding environment impacts the occupants' comfort while still being able to balance energy savings. Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD) models are key to understanding this balance. This class will teach you how to prepare an Autodesk® Revit® 2013 model and import into Autodesk® Simulation CFD 360 software. From there, you will learn how to quickly create wind-driven models of the airflow around the exterior of a building. You will also learn how to create buoyancy-driven steady-state models to understand the airflow and surface temperatures to provide design recommendations to increase thermal comfort. You will leave this class with the skills to use your CFD model to optimize your building and achieve energy savings for your high-performance HVAC system.

In this hands-on lab, you work through the process of creating and using Sim 360™ Pro cloud service for simulation and Autodesk® Simulation CFD software to generate engineering data for the designer throughout the product development process to optimize your design. I demonstrate that you do not need to be an analyst to use the Simulation software as many engineers believe today. We walk through the entire process of setting up and running the simulation and examining the results of heat loss and thermal transfer before examining the real-world effects on the design as we drop our consumer goods.

Computational fluid dynamics (CFD) is a critical simulation tool for sustainability. By integrating CFD into the broader energy-simulation workflow, we can make more informed decisions and illustrate these issues for our clients. The key is to understand how CFD results translate into real-world metrics in terms of thermal comfort and energy. And, ultimately how the value of each strategy compares to other high-performance investment opportunities. This case-study class focuses on one simple example: using CFD to compare finned-tube perimeter heat to radiant ceiling panels in a typical private office. Our class outlines not only the specific steps of the CFD modeling process, but also how this process fits into the overall energy-performance optimization trajectory for the project.

Autodesk, Inc.’s, Project Scorch enables fire and smoke Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD) simulation within your buildings’ designs. In this class we’ll cover the full process, including importing your designs, creating burners and sprinklers, working with materials, and interpreting local and cloud-based analysis results—all to enable you to utilize the power of simulation within your design process. We will cover how understanding heat, smoke, and particle movement can help you in the design process, and how you can integrate simulation into the process. We will also cover some best practices and helpful tips to help you get the most out of Project Scorch, as well as demonstrate several examples to help understand key concepts.

CFD simulations enables a deep insight about fluid flow behaviour under the guidance of simulation setup. Apart from basic static-region CFD cases such as air flow in a duct or two-phase flow of a heat exchanger, we need an additional approach to define their rotating parts (blades) while simulating rotating devices such as centrifugal fans, axial flow fans, pumps, turbo chargers etc., especially when we're optimizing the blade geometry.In this hands-on lab, we'll set a CFD simulation of an axial flow fan by using Autodesk CFD Rotating Region Method.Please see my past webinar video in Turkish:

Autodesk CFD software has gone through dramatic advancements that cover every aspect of the typical workflow necessary to perform an aerodynamics analysis. We will examine new workflows available to capitalize on your CAD data using SimStudio Tools for CAD cleanup or surface wrapping to nearly eliminate any CAD preparation. We will then do a deep dive into the new turbulence models available and the best practices and which ones to use for aerodynamics simulations. We will touch on mesh adaption best practices for aerodynamics to reduce the typical meshing guesswork and increase solving efficiency for complex aerodynamics models. The demonstration will conclude with methods to accurately capture the wall force results to measure lift and drag on bodies using efficient techniques. This class is designed to present the latest and proven workflows to perform aerodynamics simulations to eliminate out-of-date inefficient and less-accurate workflows used in the past.

Implementing new technologies in your company is always a challenge. Everything from getting approvals, licensing, training, testing and failing are just a part of the process. Once you get it right, then you need to document your findings and train your staff. In this case study you will learn about some of the business and technical challenges of a CFD implementation project in Costa Rica’s largest MEP Design Firm. After a brief introduction to CFD, we will cover how to get support from management, how to get appropriate training, documentation and other resources to help you get started. Finally, we will explore some of the difficulties encountered in implementing CFD and the strategies adopted to overcome them. This class will feature a real world forced ventilation example for basements as a case study.

Have you heard about Simulation CFD software? Do you want to see how easy it is to get started? Would you like to play with a new software system? Come on down to the hands-on lab. Pick which scenario you want to explore, whether it is electronics cooling, airflow in a room, or wind loading on a structure. Choose what type of results you are interested in. Explore and learn.

The effective use of Autodesk Simulation CFD for Turbomachinery applications requires fundamental knowledge of Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD) and the software simulation use. Proficiency in these areas will ultimately help to improve both the design process and product performance. In this class, the fundamentals of the CFD process and its impact on Turbomachinery designs will be introduced to establish the initial foundation of simulation skills. A practical exercise of a simple centrifugal pump will then be used to put these skills into actual practice. The progression of a typical CFD simulation starts from the CAD model, the meshed model, to solving and convergence, and finally results visualization. During this workflow, best practices and pitfalls of CFD in Turbomachinery modeling will be discussed. Finally, the powerful post-processing tools of Autodesk CFD will be exposed to interpret Turbomachinery results and make decisions for modifying the design.

Starting from the case study of Botanical Institute of University Campus �La Sapienza� in Rome, this class will explore an airflow simulation study with Autodesk CFD software, giving the information necessary for the development of the design. We'll talk about CFD and its possibilities to optimise design, reducing energy costs and providing occupants with good indoor air quality and a high level of thermal comfort. We'll learn how a CFD code works and introduce the concept of passive bioclimatic design as a strategy for the control of the source of natural thermal. We'll also talk about natural ventilation and other bioclimatic design solutions, understanding the importance of integration between climate design and architectural design disciplines starting from the first stages of the design process or related to an existing building redevelopment.

Will my part fail? Will it be cooled effectively? Simulation can answer these and other critical questions early in the design process. This class will show how these simulations can be taken a step farther by examining fluid structure interaction (FSI) or, more specifically, taking advantage of the thermal results from a computational fluid dynamics (CFD) analysis to use as input into a mechanical stress and strain calculation. We will examine new workflows for running a thermal analysis in Autodesk® Simulation CFD software, processing the results, and using the thermal data within the setup of a thermal stress analysis.

An efficient CFD Analysis process should take into account the quality of the information being fed to the software. This is of particular importance when it comes to geometry. Adequate meshing is crucial not only for the convergence of a solution but also for the quality an ease of interpretation of results. This hand-on lab will demonstrate the practical implications of managing large Revit models from multiple sources and having to integrate them a single mesh for analysis. We will start by creating some geometry in Autodesk Revit and walk through the steps of simplifying and refining that geometry for successful meshing in CFD. We will be using the Import/Export capabilities of Autodesk Revit and CFD before finally setting up a simple design study to validate the imported geometry. This class will feature an iterative approach used for modeling a project in Costa Rica as a case study. Going from basic geometry and then expanding into a more realistic scenario.

Fluid-structure interaction (FSI) is a type of multiphysics that is important when designing systems such as exhaust systems found in power plants. This proposal uses an FSI approach to synergize the flow regime and the mechanical response behavior using Autodesk tools. This is done by exporting transient loads from Autodesk CFD simulations and mapping onto Fusion 360 Event Sim models to calculate the dynamic structural behavior. The FSI approach is crucial for simulating phenomena such as flow-induced vibration (FIV). FIV simulations can predict fatigue performance of equipment like exhaust chutes. They can also predict catastrophic failure on a component if its modes “lock in” with the vortex shedding. Applications of FIV simulation can range from small sensors in cross flow in pipes to jet flows bellowing out of an exhaust unit. Attendees will leave with a familiarity of FSI and will gain an insight into FIV problems they might currently be experiencing and their solutions.

This class will include a competition to set up a model to achieve the best accuracy. It will begin with a discussion and hands-on session involving meshing—basic rules of meshing, mesh sensitivity, and mesh controls; solver settings—Advection Schemes, Nodal aspect ratio, Mach number, and Y+; convergence controls and interpretation; momentum conservation; and energy balance. Finally we will have a competition to apply what was discussed to produce an accurate simulation. Geometry and a description of the test environment will be provided, along with the results required. It is assumed that the user will have a good understanding of the software and can already set up his or her own models to a good level.

Participants will learn how to use Revit software as a powerful and rapid geometry creation tool. As energy analysts and mechanical engineers, we often require multiple energy analysis programs to produce energy performance models, compliance models for Title 24 and Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design (LEED), load calculation models, and computational fluid dynamics (CFD) models. We can save significant time and money by using Revit software to create a single analytical model that we can export to various programs, including Simulation CFD software, eQUEST, energyPRO software, Trane's TRACE software, Integrated Environmental Solutions Ltd.'s Virtual Environment software, and California's new CBECC-Com software. This class will provide a detailed workflow for creating the geometry and exporting to the various programs, and you will discover tips and tricks to help troubleshoot and control the quality of your mechanical, electrical, and plumbing designs.

The class will mainly cover the essentials of China Architecture Design Group’s Building Information Modeling (BIM) solutions and practices, including BIM organizational frameworks, integration of collaborative BIM workflow and management, BIM project implementation, and so on. Since 2004, project case studies have been drawn from 48 various BIM projects with diversified building types with a total building area of more than 5,000,000 square meters. Additionally, the class will introduce the development and implementation of China national BIM standards: Building Information Modeling Delivery Standard, Building Information Modeling Classification and Coding Standard, Building Information Modeling Drafting Standard. This session features Revit, CFD, and Navisworks Manage.

A real-life metro project design will be demonstrated through using Autodesk AEC Collection. Design Authoring, 3D Coordination, Existing Conditions Modelling, Creation of Design Documents and Engineering Analysis were the BIM uses of the project. Stations, tunnels, underground utilities and real environment of the project were modeled by using Revit, Infraworks and Civil 3D. Autodesk CFD, Revit, MagiCAD tools helped designers for engineering analysis and simulation studies. Active use of technologies such as reality capture, virtual reality played an important role in the design process.