00:01Hello everyone.

00:02My name is Ryo Araya. I come from Japan.

00:04I appreciate the opportunity to speak with you today about airflow modeling and GIS.

00:11The movement of the air affects our livelihood in various ways such as strong wind, diffusion of smoke, or...

00:19...summer environment, and so it can be considered during the design process.

00:25To visualize an invisible flow of wind gives a planner a useful knowledge for creating a wind-friendly design.

00:34So in this presentation, I would like to briefly describe some application scenarios...

00:41...featuring integrated wind modeling technology with GIS.

00:47Why do we want to integrate wind modeling into GIS, the geodesign process?

00:54Traditional winds analysis using CFD technology was often outsourced and assessed after the design had been fixed.

01:03It was difficult to change design based on analysis results.

01:09Now we can integrate the evolving design in the GIS directly into wind simulation.

01:19By simplifying the wind modeling experience, the planner can now operate simulation process by himself...

01:28...and optimize the plan by trial and error.

01:34Visualizing the results in 2D or 3D with other plan design data can be very informative.

01:44And finally, results can be used for further spatial analysis in the GIS.

01:52We have developed an ArcGIS extension called the Airflow Analyst which integrate wind for modeling with ArcGIS.

02:01This tool provides computational, mesh generation, wind simulation, and visualization integrated into ArcGIS.

02:11LES, Large Eddy Simulation is mathematical model for turbulence.

02:19One of the feature areas is output of time series wind view data...

02:25...which can be visualized as an easy-to-understand animation.

02:31LES has a high accuracy and in the past year, the expert believe that it was too computationally intensive...

02:39...to be used as an engineering tool or a design tool.

02:44This is no longer true.

02:46Our model has been developed and validated in Kyushu University for more than 10 years...

02:52...and it can finish a simulation on general purpose PC within several hours.

03:00And so I'd like to show you some case studies applying this software.

03:06In the first case, we estimated strong winds generated along the high-rise building.

03:12As you know, when a building restricts wind flow, strong wind is rised at the edge of the building.

03:20By modifying the building shape, there is a possibility to mitigate the wind hazard.

03:27In Japan, when high-rise building is planned near the low-rise houses.

03:32The developer have to explain impact to surrounding neighborhood.

03:38The lower right picture shows some typical way to ease strong wind.

03:47The next case, we applied it to more complex environment structures.

03:53This baseball stadium roof can be opened.

04:02In this animation, you can see a strong wind generated along the both side of the building.

04:10And some trees planted at the lower left was swayed in the downwind direction.

04:18This means that strong wind constantly blows at this place when land and sea breeze happen.

04:28The third case study is about placement of micro wind turbine on the rooftop.

04:37It is known that high wind velocity of the rooftop height is as strong as at ground level.

04:44However, there is a variable wind speed because complex turbine wind flow is reduced at the upwind building...

04:53...and edge of roof itself.

04:56To take measurable wind condition is very important to find a suitable place for windmills.

05:07The fourth case is application to the Japanese Environmental Building Assessment System called CASBEE.

05:15If a building classified as the highest level in the system, then it is regarded as a more valuable property in the real estate market.

05:27For the assessment, the designer prepares a proposed plan and results observation data for wind simulation.

05:37By tracking the exhaust gas or heat released from house or car parking...

05:46...the designer can find out where uncomfortable airflow and human activities are connecting.

05:53This kind of analysis and counter measures are required to perform a thermal environment assessment.

06:02This method can also be applied to individual housing design.

06:11To taking a comfortable breath from outside possibly, window location for flow of the air is important.

06:26But it is hard to imagine its flow path without simulation.

06:31This method was used in residential design competition to objectively explain the designer's intent with the wind environment.

06:45The last case is an exploration of ventilation path in urban area.

06:51This picture shows how ocean breeze flows into Fukuoka City.

06:56Much of the simulation become possible by optimizing the calibration [unintelligible] by 64-bit computation.

07:05You can see is a strong wind around the rivers and wide streets parallel to the wind direction.

07:14Local government used this information to make planning decisions such as connecting the greenbelt...

07:21...or aligning building direction or height to ease heat island effect in summer.

07:29These are some applications using wind modeling technology with Airflow Analyst.

07:35If you have any questions on this presentation, please ask me later.

07:39Thank you for kind attention.