Cloud-Native Wind Simulation Software

From CAD to Simulation Results in 3 Steps

Import your building CAD model

SimScale imports Revit, Rhino, Sketchup and other common file formats, meshing is automatic.

Set up your microclimate analysis in your web browser

Select location and weather data, and start simulating!

external wind simulation with online cfd

Analyze and visualize your results in minutes

Visualize wind velocities, pedestrian wind comfort criteria, and external comfort with SimScale’s online post-processor.

Microclimate and Wind Simulation in Your Web-Browser

With the complexity of buildings and urban areas, simulations for wind and microclimate impacts have become a critical factor in urban design and planning, helping to ensure stability and structural integrity for buildings, as well as comfort and safety for pedestrians. Assessing building aerodynamics, pedestrian comfort, and wind loading is now simple using SimScale. CFD wind analysis helps engineers investigate all of these factors early in the design process, before investing in wind tunnel testing.

Get access to an easy-to-use wind simulator and digital wind tunnel software to assess the impact of wind around buildings and in cities. The unique LBM solver in SimScale allows you to import intricate models from Revit, Rhino, and Sketchup with little or no CAD cleanup.

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The Power of CFD for Wind Comfort & Safety

Accurate wind flow simulation in the cloud allows you to evaluate alternative building designs and layouts simultaneously. With SimScale’s wind software, architects and engineers can access, evaluate, and get results from a wind analysis online. The results are used to comply with planning criteria for pedestrian comfort such as the Lawson, Davenport, NEN8100 standards, and City of London standards. Custom comfort criteria can be defined and visualized by the user.

Integrations and 3D Accelerated Graphics Visualization

SimScale’s API has enabled easy integration with industry-standard tools such as Cove.Tool, NVIDIA, ESRI ArcGIS, and more. Designers can now use the fast and accurate microclimate simulations from SimScale in their workflow, from early-stage design competitions to detailed planning proposals.

Zero hardware or software footprint

With SimScale, investing in expensive high-performance computing hardware and caring for software installation and maintenance are a thing of the past.

Low upfront investment

Save on thousands of dollars by cutting the cost of expensive hardware and software maintenance fees.

No installation or maintenance

Connect to the Internet and run demanding simulations on any laptop or PC. We take care of software updates for you in the background.

Easy setup

With our simple workflow and ready-to-use simulation templates and tutorials, you never have to start from scratch.

“The total material cost saving was 44%. We eliminated testing and prototype costs on this project entirely. It usually takes 1-3 weeks of prototyping time and another 1-3 weeks for all the testing normally done. Overall this project was successful and it helped achieve our goal of reducing cost and keeping within the project timeline.”

Josh Levine

Lead Engineer in Value Engineering Department at Kichler Lighting
“I loved the fact that I could do what I need to do in a browser. I started working without installing any software. Using any computer I could upload the model and start the analysis. That was the big “wow” moment.”

Ben Lewis

President at Custom Machines
“Working with SimScale gave us the possibility to inspect which of the architectural and technical solutions works the best way and give us certainty about our decisions. One other big factor is the speed in which SimScale can deliver results, through its great parallelization capacity. Without SimScale, we wouldn’t be able to deliver high-quality results in the required time period.”

David Akeret

VDC Specialist at Gruner Roschi AG
“With SimScale we found our ideal balance between ease of use, variety of capabilities, and the ability to handle complex physics. However, we came to appreciate SimScale’s customer service as the most welcome benefit of all: their expert involvement allowed even less experienced engineers to run reliable simulation studies.”

Dr. Alessandro Scafato

Senior Development Engineer at ANYbotics

Online CFD Software for Wind Simulation