Development of a fast response building resolving urban energy model

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Title Development of a fast response building resolving urban energy model
Publication Type thesis
School or College College of Engineering
Department Mechanical Engineering
Author Allen, Chad
Date 2010-08
Description QUIC (Quick Urban and Industrial Complex) is a fast running urban wind and particle dispersion modeling system. This empirically based building-resolving model has been developed to rapidly compute the wind flow through urban environments and predict contaminate dispersion. The information provided by QUIC can be used by planners to predict an optimal location to place a new structure within an existing urban layout based upon the effectiveness of the natural wind flow to remove pollutants from within a city. Furthermore, a new structure's optimal location can also be based upon minimizing the required heating or cooling throughout the year. To analyze the energy transfer within an urban environment, heat transfer modes such as convection, radiation, and latent heat transfer must be considered. The work presented here describes the development of an energy model designed to calculate the total energy transfer to and from structures within an urban center by analyzing thermal advection, diffusion, and radiation. To meet the criteria of the QUIC program and rapidly model the energy transfer within the environment, the energy model is being developed using a Single Input Multiple Data (SIMD) parallel computational structure using CUDA. CUDA is a parallel programming application based on C which uses an NVIDIA graphics card to perform multiple calculations simultaneously and enhance computational performance.
Type Text
Publisher University of Utah
Subject CFD; Convection; GPU; Heat transfer; Radiation; Urban; QUIC; Urban wind; Particle dispersion
Dissertation Institution University of Utah
Dissertation Name MS
Language eng
Rights Management ©Chad Allen.
Format application/pdf
Format Medium application/pdf
Format Extent 3,930,368 bytes
Source Original housed in Marriott Library Special Collections, QA3.5 2010 .A45
ARK ark:/87278/s6tt55jc
Setname ir_etd
ID 193339
Reference URL https://collections.lib.utah.edu/ark:/87278/s6tt55jc
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