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=VirtualWind at UNSW= VirtualWind ceased trading 30 July 2010, and no longer distributes or supports the software. This wiki is now closed to members.

Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD) as part of architectural design
There is a long-standing problem of encouraging architects and architectural students, to incorporate appropriate technical analysis in early design of buildings. The hardest of all has been to test for ventilation and wind effects, because the software that helps you do that has been so complex and computationally intensive.

This Australian summer, a small team of architecture students at UNSW in Sydney, are trying out **Virtualwind**®, a relative newcomer on the CFD scene. This wiki is the shared journal of that trial.

VirtualWind software

 * Virtualwind**® is an advanced 3D wind flow modeling and visualization software solution. It appears to be designed from the beginning to allow users to quickly predict, understand and convey complex wind flow phenomena in urban, suburban and rural environments. Models can be imported from the GoogleTM 3D Warehouse and edited in Google SketchUpTM, which greatly simplifies the model-building process.

To view the vendor's site, click here.

**How to use this wiki**
This wiki has evolved over several months and to some degree its format is not linear. The majority of the work was undertaken on VW version 1, hence most of the pages relate to that. The 'summary' page is designed to provide a brief overview of VW and to form a guide that compliments the information put out by the developers.
 * We suggest you begin with the __summary__ page and then look deeper into the other pages for more complex answers and explanations.**