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Wind loads & dynamic response

Global loads and accelerations for tall buildings.

In the solver

What it is

Capture the unsteady wind loading on a tall or slender structure and turn surface-pressure time series into global static and dynamic forces - and per-floor accelerations for occupant comfort.

High-fidelity LESSurface pressure time seriesBody force / moment exportWind-direction sweep
Start from the CAARC benchmark or your own tower geometry.

Typical run

Indicative single-GPU estimates - they scale with domain size and the accuracy you need.

~200M

Mesh cells (LBM nodes)

Minutes

Full-scale time resolved

Hours

Runtime per direction

1x 24 GB GPU

Typical hardware

How it works

1

Model the building and surroundings and run LES to capture the unsteady wind loading.

2

Export pressure time series across the envelope.

3

Integrate them into global static and dynamic forces on the structure.

4

Combine with the structure's modal properties for per-floor accelerations.

What you get

Global static and dynamic wind forces
Surface pressure time series
Per-floor accelerations for occupant comfort
Worst-case wind directions
Trusted & validated

Why you can trust our results

We are not a physical wind tunnel - we are a CFD specialist whose results are validated against wind tunnel measurements. AeroSim is an international reference in computational wind engineering.

Journal of Wind Engineering & Industrial Aerodynamics

Peer-reviewed

Published solver

JWEIA, 2026

Validated against wind tunnel
70+ consulting projects across the Americas and Europe
Peer-reviewed, published solver (JWEIA, 2026)
High-fidelity LES simulations

Peer-reviewed: Oliveira Jr., W., et al. “Nassu: A high performance LES solver for computational wind engineering”. Journal of Wind Engineering & Industrial Aerodynamics, 274 (2026) 106465.

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