About the event
In recent years, end users have become more concerned with the human experience and the personal comfort of the individual is becoming more important in the design of the built environment. Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD) is a tool that permits assessment of personal comfort. CFD is a stream of fluid mechanics that utilises numerical methods to analyse and solve problems involving fluid flows. The fundamental basis for these problems are the Navier-Stokes equations. While research applications of CFD are developing, as it the use of CFD in the aerospace industry, the use of CFD in Civil Engineering applications is currently at the cutting edge. Arup have recently developed a team to work on such projects and some of these will be presented at this talk.
About the speakers
Dr Cristina Paduano is an Aerospace Engineer, who has specialised in the field of Computational Fluid Dynamic (CFD). She has over 11 years’ experience in the field of numerical modelling of air flows. Cristina manages a team of CFD specialists in Arup, Dublin, which provides a wide variety of flow analysis for buildings including indoor thermal comfort, fire and smoke modelling, HVAC modelling, wind simulations and fluid-structure interactions. Since arriving in Arup, she used the knowledge acquired from her PhD in aero-acoustics to investigate the fluid-dynamic phenomena underlying the generation of air-born noise from building façade elements. With her team she developed a numerical methodology that can predict if a façade will generate noise when exposed to wind.
Réamonn Mac Réamoinn, Chartered Engineer
Réamonn is a senior member in Arup’s CFD team. He has undertaken two research masters in Civil Engineering at Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, USA and he was awarded the Fulbright-CRH award to undertake this masters. His research examined the fluid-structure interaction between wind and bridges. Réamonn previously worked with Roughan & O' Donovan Consulting Engineers, Ireland where he gained experience in relation to bridge design, road design and traffic engineering.
Dr Jennifer Keenahan, Chartered Engineer
Jennifer is a modelling specialist in the Arup's CFD team. Applications include internal thermal comfort of buildings, external pedestrian wind comfort, wind loading and pressure distributions on structures, flow of smoke and fire, aero acoustics and tonal noise assessment of facades and boiler emissions analysis. Jennifer is a Bridge Design Engineer involved in grillage modelling of integral concrete bridges using Oasys GSA software, Adsec Software and Sofiplus, the local modelling of wingwalls, longitudinal and transverse deck elements, strut-and-tie modelling of the pier crosshead, the detailed design of the bridge elements, Technical Assessment Reports and Design Risk Assessments.
Admission
Free- all are welcome to attend.