What do complex spaces in buildings have in common with Formula 1 race cars, America’s Cup yachts, spaceships, and jet fighters? Increasingly, it may be that all have the opportunity to use computational fluid dynamics (CFD) to optimize design of complex architectural spaces.
For the majority of its life, CFD has been synonymous with the design of the most expensive, fastest, and highest performing human creations of human beings. Through the use of fluid dynamics equations and ever-increasing computing power, complex simulations have been performed to push the boundaries in both sport and science.
