Wind Engineering

Pedestrian Comfort

Air Quality

Exhaust Stack & Air
Intake Solutions

Sun / Shade / Glare

Snow Engineering

Ventilation

Noise, Acoustics & Vibration

Hazard & Risk

Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD)

Regional Airshed Modeling

Regulatory Permitting

Stack & Field Testing

Laboratory Services

Master Planning

Sustainable Design

Protective Ventilation

Capabilities

 Numerical Testing / Modeling

Numerical computer models are based on engineering equations used to describe physical processes. They range from simplistic "screening level" models to highly detailed, computationally-intensive models (requiring thousands of data inputs and days of computer run-time).

RWDI has proprietary software developed over 25 years of research and development.  A number of these proprietary numerical models have replaced wind tunnel modeling, which is a cost savings for the client.

RWDI uses numerical models / processors that fit within the following categories:

Air Quality Dispersion Within and around buildings and structures
For flat and complex terrain
Buoyant, neutrally-buoyant and dense gas releases
Meteorological Wind speed
Wind direction
Mixing heights
Stability class
Noise / Noise / Vibration Off and on-site noise levels
Risk Public and worker safety
Snow Ground accumulation
Snowdrifting
Solar Glare
Shadows
Photosynthetically active radiation
Winds Wind field / Wind wake
Buffeting
Vortex shedding