Tian Building Engineering, Dr. József Nagy are organizing an advanced green building engineering training school online (from Singapore and Austria) with the goal to enable participants to start their own more sophisticated and involved Computational Fluid Dynamic (CFD) simulations in OpenFOAM®.
If you are interested, see more information and the registration form below or contact us at
to provide participants with an overview of the use of CFD technology in the context of green building engineering and mechanical engineering problems
to train participants with CFD modelling techniques and relevant software skills for more challenging problem settings
to understand and model tree canopy, individual trees, solar heat load, contamination (e.g. COVID) and gas dispersion problems
The participants will obtain the knowledge and the experience needed to start their own advanced CFD projects. They will also be able to test the latest CFD Addon of Tian Bulding Engineering's Software (BIM-HVAC tool) on their own laptops, which offers amongst several features the possibility to run CFD simulations with OpenFOAM® and postprocessing of OpenFOAM® cases.
Certificates of participation will be issued to all participants.
Limited seating is available, so please make sure to reserve your seat today.
See more information and the registration form below or you can contact us at
Assistant Engineers/ Engineers and building professionals required to perform airflow modelling using Computation Fluid Dynamics analysis.
Building Professionals, project managers, developers, building owner, facility managers and other stakeholders involved in green and healthy environment projects
Mechanical and Chemical engineers required to performed challenging turbulent fluid flow simulations
Basic understanding of computer simulations. Most important basic features will be recapitulated.
Starting date: April 2nd &3rd 2024
Duration: 2 days
Time: 1pm-9pm (Singapore time)
Venue: online
Fee: 700 EUR for early bird registration
750 EUR for regular registration
Disclaimer: The price does not include applicable taxes (e.g. VAT). Payment has to be done before the start of the course.
Early bird registration lasts until February 28th 2024.
Please submit all registrations until March 29th 2024!
For a second participant from the same company an additional 10% of discount will be given.
For more information see agenda and and the registration form below, you can contact us via email at:
For the simulations OpenFOAM® version 2212 will be utilized.
Part I Introduction
Introduction
Introduction to OpenFOAM®
Best practice workflow for successful first simulation run
Part II First simulation of flow around building
Importing geometry
Application of snappyHexMesh
Initial and boundary conditions
Simulation settings
Post-processing and interpretation of results
Part III Flow around building with tree canopy
Fundamentals of mesh generation with snappyHexMesh
Simplified simulation run
Tree canopy modeling
Non-uniform tree height
Non-uniform leaf density
Surface roughness (e.g. gravel, grass)
Part IV Flow around buildings with individual permeable tree models
Importing geometry
Application of snappyHexMesh
Defintion of trees
Definition of individual tree properties
Radiative heat as simulation input
Part I Q&A
Ask any questions
Recapitulation of simulation workflow
Part II Solar heat load
Importing geometry
Application of snappyHexMesh
Simplified approach
Calculation of radiative heat
Radiative heat as simulation input
Part III Dispersion simulation
Geometry, mesh and case setup of OpenFOAM® for dispersion simulation
Species injection and distribution
Consideration of molar mass of species
Temperature distribution
Best practice workflow for successful simulation run
Post-processing and interpretation of results (see video below)
Part VI Room contamination simulation
Air contamination via humans or supply air
Influence of exhausts
Thermal effects
Contamination percentage
Age of Air
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PhD in Chemical Engineering, Vienna University of Technology
Master's degree (Dipl.-Ing.) in Physics, Vienna University of Technology
Dr József Nagy specializes in CFD modeling in a wide variety of fields (e.g. multiphase modeling, complex materials, chemical reactions, conjugate heat transfer, etc.) in the open-source CFD tool OpenFOAM. He has over nine years of experience in teaching and training with OpenFOAM. He is co-chair of the Technical Committee for Documentation and Tutorials and initiator of the tutorial collection at wiki.openfoam.com/Tutorials. He is also one of two main editors of the OpenFOAM Journal. He has been offering tutorial videos online for educational purposes for years.
Adjunct Associate Professor, Singapore Institute of Technology
PhD (Computational Fluid Dynamics), Nanyang Technological University
MSc (A&AE), Purdue University, USA
BSc (A&AE), Purdue University, USA
Dr Alex Lee specialises in computational fluid dynamics and building performance analysis. He teaches in the SITLEARN Professional Development programme, Building Services, and has previously taught Building Performance Studio at National University of Singapore (NUS). He has held teaching appointments at the BCA Academy and CIMNE (Singapore). He is also instrumental in helping SCDF in developing Singapore’s Performance Based Fire Safety Engineering code. Dr. Lee strong research background and his vast industry experiences has enabled him to receive grants from the National Science and Trade Development Board (NSTB) and Singapore and Building Construction Authority (BCA) many times for software development.
He holds a Bachelor of Engineering and Master of Engineering of Aeronautics and Astronautics (A&AE) from the Purdue University, USA, and a Doctor of Computational Fluid Dynamics from Nanyang Technological University (NTU).
In this video you see the flow behind a building with the isosurface of NOX species of a simulation of 100s: