Built environment & AEC
Simulation for buildings, urban design and the built environment
Pedestrian wind comfort around buildings, the atmospheric boundary layer those studies have to sit in, smoke and fire in enclosed spaces, pollutant and tracer dispersion, and flood and open-channel hydraulics. The wind-comfort workflow is the one AEC teams most often outsource, and it is a case type.
Questions this answers
- Is it comfortable to stand and to sit at ground level around this massing?
- Where does the wind accelerate between these towers?
- Where does smoke go in this space, and how fast?
- Where does an exhaust or a tracer end up across this site?
- How does water move across this ground at this flow?
The analysis types that do it
Each of these is a case type in the application, not a configuration you assemble. Every one runs in the free build — the free tier limits mesh size and cores, never which physics you may use.
And in the other modules
Structural, thermal and electromagnetics ship alongside fluids. Only the types that run today are listed.
Backends underneath
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Open-source solvers, selected and configured from the case type. You can still read every dictionary the application writes.
When it will not fit on your machine
Paid accounts can send meshing and solving to SHD Cloud and keep working locally. The estimate is shown before the run starts.
What this does not do
- No BIM or IFC import. Geometry arrives as CAD like everything else.
- Wind-comfort criteria are reported as the flow statistics behind them, not as a named local standard with a pass mark.
- No building energy modelling — this is not an alternative to an EnergyPlus-class tool.
Naming a sector here says the physics suits the work. It is not a claim that anyone in it is a customer.