Indoor Comfort
CFD is crucial to optimize indoor air quality, natural ventilation, thermal comfort and energy efficiency in the built environment, providing unique support for achieving LEED, WELL and Green Mark certifications.
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Enhance the value of your design with wind comfort assessment
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Analyse time and efficiency of air exchange
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Ensure thermal comfort compliance (PMV and PPD indexes)
Courtesy of University of Padua, Italy
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VENTO AEC offers a streamlined solution to easily simulate airflow within realistic spaces and swiftly gain both visual and quantitative insights into the evolving air quality.
Our case study – developed by the University of Padua – provides a glimpse into the extremely detailed IFC model of a real office, showcasing a practical example of HVAC simulation.
Courtesy of Italmineraria S.r.l.
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With VENTO AEC you can analyse airflow patterns in indoor spaces and define optimizing factors, such as building configurations, orientations, window placements and the integration of mechanical ventilation systems.
This application domain covers not only residential and commercial buildings, but also civil infrastructure like tunnels and mines – where the dispersion of pollutants can be critical – ensuring adequate air quality and controlling potential risks.
In this case study we analyse natural ventilation and air exchange in mine tunnels, with and without additional forced ventilation.
Problematic areas of air stagnation become apparent through animated visualisations, and parameters such as Age of Air (AOA) and Air Exchange Effectiveness (AEE) are readily accessible over time.
The video displays 3D concentration clouds of ‘old’ air within multiple kilometers of mine tunnels after a 3-hour period.
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For building physicists and construction engineers, ensuring occupants’ thermal comfort in line with international standards is a key priority. By computing PMV (Predicted Mean Vote) and PPD (Predicted Percentage of Dissatisfied) indicators, VENTO AEC allows to assess and optimize the design and settings of indoor environments to meet thermal comfort compliance.
In this case study we analyse the HVAC performance of a big-sized environment (20 x 20 x 6 m) with glass partitions and an estimated occupation of 12 pax, providing PMV and PPD indexes.